Projects Shade tree Model A speedster kind of thing

If you follow their manual its pretty hard to mess it up.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. I agree. I just decided to try that thick cloth because I wanted to see if this glue could be used for skin-on-frame boat building. It might still work if I thinned the glue, but this lighter weight fabric seems to be working out much better.

 

Jeez, lotta back trackin, I feel the pain! It's all part of the learning process for sure, you know this stuff is not common knowledge any more so ya gotta fiddle around some to figure out what works.
I like the corner radii fillers, looks better.

 

Love your work, I have been pondering a fabric bodied special for a while....

 

@mohr hp: Backtracking should be my middle name. Haha. The thing is, as @64 DODGE 440 pointed out, it's not really a lost art. There are untold numbers of YouTube videos on covering with this stuff. I fell victim to my tendency to experiment and try to use stuff in ways it wasn't designed for. Now I know, at least.

Anyway, this covering job seems to be turning out much better. I'm still painting, dodging around a little cold snap here, taking advantage of the little windows when we are over 50 F. I was running low on grey, so I poured in some blue that I had laying around and got this color:



I figured that I could paint over it eventually with some new grey, my priority was getting it coated before we got more rain but that color is growing on me, and after combining them I had a full quart, so... Also, piss on a foam brush. I don't know what I was thinking trying that thing. Switched immediately to a good 1" sash brush and never looked back.

As you can see, it shrank up really tight with the iron. Pops like a drum if you thump it, just like @Fabber McGee said the planes do. This is after just two coats, the original grey and then the mixed color:



Obviously, I'm painting the wooden parts for the ***-end as I go, so I sat the top one on there for the picture. I imagine, as this thing progresses, I'll end up posting some close-ups that will reveal what a sloppy painter I am, but the old car was the same and I thought it fit the vibe just right. To my way of thinking, paint on something like this is more functional than decorative.

 

The color looks fantastic, I'm really excited to see the finished result.
I really like what you do and how you do it.
Regards, Harald

 

Brush strokes fit the era you're aiming at I think. The fancy cars built in a race shop were most likely sprayed, but the other 9 out of 10 that were built in someone's driveway were no doubt painted with a brush. Carry on, it looks great.

 

I'm liking the color too! Good on ya @rwrj!