Customize A Foam RC Aircraft with Jeremy Solt - Motion RC Extra
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Ever wanted to customize your own foam aircraft but didn't know where to start? We got the help from RC Pilot and friend of Motion RC Jeremy Solt to show you the steps he takes to make his models his own!
Thank you so much for this video, it’s exactly the amount of detail that I’ve been looking for. I’ve been contemplating doing a paint job on my new Turbo Timber but my nerves have been getting the best of me. But after listening to you and watching the technique I’ve finally pulled the trigger and started. Thanks very much to you Jeremy and Motion RC. Now I want an Albatross too😝.
Great job Jeremy ! Freewing airplanes are the absolute best by far
I know this is an old video but I just wanted to thank you. I know how much work goes into doing videos like these. 👍
Thanks. Even tougher was editing all the footage Jeremy had shot. He did great work going in depth, but having to watch everything through and piecing it altogether was a tall task. Thanks again - James
Interesting video, always great to pick up new tricks. You mentioned earlier about the clear coat and I was wondering if I missed this step or you just did not do a clear coat.
You are Awesome 😮 OMG BEAUTIFUL PLANE NICELY DONE
being a new modeler we find means and methods hard to find, so we just stumble upon them, like this..
AND you can use minwax wipe on poly and rust-oleum oil base enamel directly on FOAM, we discovered this while painting an Arrow foam Corsair.
I happened to get some oil base paints on the foam packing and realized that not only does it not dissolve the foam, it bonds very well to the foam.
We even poured some paint thinner on the foam and it pooled on the foam but Did Not Dissolve the foam.
The cheap paint that came on the plane peeled off with some Blue tape after I had painted over it with some latex water base paints;
So now I am using poly (not water based) or oil base enamel to prime and harden foam
Yes, you can coat your Foam plane with oil base poly, paint etc, resulting in a Hard structural skin.
THANKS FOR A REALLY HELPFUL VIDEO
Jeremy rocks! Such a great guy!
Absolutely a great video , loved the ringtone -- Airwolf
Jeremy, thanks for such a patient and pretty detailed "How To" demonstration. I'm sure a lot of pilots have been asking for something like this for a while, myself included. This will help me to get started with a project I've been wanting to start but didn't want to screw up it too badly trying to figure it out.
I'ts a lot more simple paint job than the one you just did, but now I'm not so apprehensive to get started.
Who the heck gave this video a "Thumbs Down"? Really?
Hitting the "Like" button a few times to make up for those knuckle-heads. All out of fun, of course! :-)
Thanks again!
Flying Ant, thank you
Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Now I know why, good job Jeremy!
AWESOME JOB MY FELLOW USAF BROTHER!!! 👩✈️👩✈️👩✈️👩✈️👩✈️
Just a note. You put the green light on the left wing tank. It should go on the right wing tank.
great, thanks
most admirable all you detailers out there, thanks for the video,,,but I crash too much for such detailing
Thank you for doing this video!!!!
No problem. I hope it helps anyway who is interested in doing their own livery to not shy away and dive right in
Freewing L-39 is one of these airframe where it might be worthwhile to offer a grey version. There are just so many paint schemes for this aircraft.
When you taped the air hose down, I was like "wtf... how simple and obvious... how come I've never thought of it?"
Hahaha. The little things are always the best
Great video! Saved me a bunch of messages to Jeremy while I convert my F-4 into a Thunderbird 🤘🤘
Glad it helped! Jeremy did a great job for us on this.
Abolutely fantastic build video, loved it!
Installed the green light in the wrong pylon though... no big deal, easy fix! ;)
Yeah I fixed it after I noticed which was shortly after the video was finished.
Life Changing Video guys thanks so much! 🤙🏽
Excellent detailed job. Takes time though...
Thanks Jeremy, I learned a lot from your video..
Dave P.
WOW! You use the same process i do silver lining wet towels!! Has anyone out there ever used the dish soap thing? Thats how I did my canopy works great!
great video love the ring tone lol
Thanks Michael. Jeremy Solt did a great job filming this for us
Thanks for sharing
Nice video, great plane👍🏼
Nice jet and an a very good job
Any miracle spray to get rid of the pebble texture of foam planes and also strengthen the surface before a repaint?
very nice job, I was inspired to go out and get a HF air compressor set, and do this scheme on my Avanti. Looks great, but I screwed up and used rustoleum 2X PAint and primer , and now my acrylic is flaking off after one flight. I was planning to coat it with polycrylic after test flight today. Will that help seal it in, or any other way to fix the mess of having painted over enamel with acylic? Thanks
The min wax should hold it all in. I love how it protects the work we do.
Thanks Jeremy for showing us your technique. Do you clean the airframe with anything prior to primer?
You're welcome William. If I get a bird right out of the box I don't usually do. however, if the bird has been out at the field and may have any dust or muck than I do clean it with baby wipes that are unscented and non Aloe.
Hi. I have a question, please: Since it's a foam plane, how do you protect it to avoid the paint from eating the foam? Thank you!
Do you sand the factory paint before poly? Or spraying with another color?
Is there a flat or semi-gloss clear coat finish that you could recommend? My project will either be a Beaver or King Air in USN livery and a Cessna 182 painted as my own Cessna Skyhawk colors.
does vallejo paint work well for priming and painting on rc foam planes? need to know what airbrush paint works on rc planes?
A pair of fine Hemostats with ridges , also known as Mosquito clamps will help in removing small parts whenever you are refinishing a plane. I hope this tip helps you. It has certainly helped me.
Just sick!
Could You mist acrylic super fine an build up coats slowly, cause it sticks to everything with or without sanding or priming?
Again, awesome job an tips, Ive got the Hideous Jetstar an with a bit of foam and a paint job it may pass or even better!
Beauty Friend, My Bonanza looks ready for some Ho Chi Min Dude.
Great video but I need more info on prepping foam surfaces with regard to factory paint and the mold release agent. Could you please state clearly what to do. On my Eflite models the factory paint peels off when you remove tape and the paint does not stick uniformly.Even the primer is problematic. Is it just the way paint sticks to Eflite foam or are there some prep procedures I am missing.
Marc Levy, there a re a few ways of prep work out there. There has only been a few parts that I have ad where the process in the video may have an issue. I have used lysol wipes before on surfaces that I have not just opened up. Some people use chemicals to remove paint but I dont go that far. As for eflite, I haven’t painted any eflite birds so Incant answer to their paint or painting of any of their birds
Did you remove the stickers and if so, how did you do it without damaging the foam?
Been trying to custom paint my 2.1m e-flite carbon cub but noticed that acrylic paint sprayed with an airbrush does not stick at all to bare foam surfaces. It is a known issue with EPO foam planes. The FW L-39 is also EPO I guess. Probably your primer went on well because it was over the existing paint, but I still cannot figure out how to go about painting over unpainted EPO. Too many videos and posts in forums but there is not a single good reliable technique.
Love the slo-mo at 4:50
Not sure if you noticed but the red and green lights are on the wrong wings. :)
Yep......lol you caught that. I fixed them after I sent James pictures of the completed bird but the video was already shot....
Great video! name of your airbrush and compressor?
Good job Jeremy. Im new to airbrushing and i want to paint my foam plane, so you use the rustoleum big can on the whole body and just use the airbrush on the details? And is it rustoleum acrylic paint? thanks so much
Ed Malubag - rustolium is an enamel
Amazing
Great Video! Any idea how much weight was added to the plane by painting it like this?
TheDornado not too much. The jet flys without any change
So this is where all the L-39's went!
Why don't you guys deliver to South Africa I live in Pretoria and wish I could get a order delivered to me here without asking some of my American or European contacts to re ship from where they are to here
Very nice could you write your equepment and paint listing with name
What is the cost to do something like this?
if you do it yourself, it would probably cost about 50 dollars for materials
If you already have some of the items your better off. this is the estimated costs that I spent. Cans of paint were about $4.00 a can. Frog tape was $6.00. Airbrush System $60.00. glass Jars $10.00. Polyurethane $9.00. Acrylic paint $.90 a bottle. Post-it notes $4.00. Blue Paper towels $2.00.
The primer hid the decals??
Hi, this is a great video and thanks for sharing. I tried to follow the paint method. However, after I pained the whole aircraft, then I tried to apply some tape to paint some small area. I found that when I peeled off the tape, the underlying paint was peeled off too. So I have to give up doing any accurate paint. What is wrong with my painting, why did my tape bring paint with it? Thanks a lot.
Long Yang - you need to make the tape less sticky by applying it to your clothes. Even then it peels sometimes. When it does that you just spray a bunch of paint into a cup and use a use a foam brush to dab the peeled area.
@@soltproductions thanks a lot. I finally did this to make it less sticky, by repeatedly put it on my pants and peeled it away.
After pressing the tape to your pants. Try rubbing baby powder or talcum power as it is called in other countries on the ace that you want to place the masking tape. Then blow off the excess powder. Place yuor tape gently in place only rub down the edge against the line that you are painting against.
Sprat your paint and let set up a little bit and then peal the tape back against the grain at an 45°angle slowly.
It will save you a graet deal of headache!.👍
Hey Jeremy I bought the compressor air brush kit like you have from Harbor Freight however the airbrush that came with it looks different than your, is yours the one that came with it or a different one? There is also no pressure regulator and this air brush would be very difficult to try to do small precise work like panel lines, or at least I think it would be.
Nevermind I see why yours looks different. You removed the cover from the rear of the airbrush. I wish there was an air pressure regulator though. I think it would make doing small finer lines easier. This brush has worked fine though for doing base coats and larger areas. I may buy another airbrush the has a pressure regulator built in for finer detail work.
Hi Jeremy, do you have to sand the plane before you spray the primer? Thank you for this video.
it would help the paint stick better, i always sand before painting
I don't sand anything because the paint I use sticks really well. in-fact it sticks so well that usually the only issue you get is that the original paint will peel before the newly applied paint will have issues.
Does he ever take the paint off the previous scheme? Or does he just apply the primer?
Jeremy Sean- i just apply directly to the primer
Hi Jeremy, great job.
Have you had any trouble with the Rustoleum paint "eating" the foam?
I watched another video where he used it and it did just that (he was testing it on polystyrene). Maybe it effects polystyrene but not EPO? He suggested an acrylic spray paint such as Liquitex but then I've heard that acrylic paints don't adhere properly
One EPO foam I haven’t had any issues. However almost every spray paint will eat the lighter and super delicate EPP foam. The difference in foam is huge The foam i am talking about in not using spray paint on is the foam in the freewing F-18 and eurofighter.
@@soltproductions If you're talking about the older F-18 from FW, they were EPS foam. The newer FW 90mm F/A-18C is EPO foam. The E-flite UMX planes are also EPS foam.
Yeah I gotta test
I love uuu
Did you remove decals , and what did you use to remove them before priming?
He did not remove them prior
Where did you buy the high gloss clear spray paint? beacuse i cant find it anywhere..
petefly FPV -walmart
What's up man!
How about a link to Cally (?) Graphics
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No offence but shouldn't the antiglare areas be flat Black!
I'll have to ask the little pilot if he's affected...
@@MotionRC So what did he say, was he feeling scale enough with the sun glare?
Hello everyone, I hope your day is going great, currently I’m flying a mini ultra stick by eflite and it hits around 60-70 mph, I’m 13 years old and I wanted to know if you all think I’m ready for a larger scale edf, I’m currently looking at the f14 on motion rc.com, thanks again everyone.
where do find the frog tape?
Walmart, amazon
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Possibly wipe the plane down with alcohol for the mold release first.
Not sure what to think of motion RC after I called and asked for parts the other day for a plane that I have and I got some pissed off Chinese guy and it was sort of like The soup Nazi from Seinfeld instead of saying no soup for you it was like no parts for you
That's a lie, but thanks for commenting
Maybe become a man and build a balsa one, nowadays modellers=/= rc pilot
hahaha. Jeremy flies everything like most of us do. Why not build a balsa one in the background while also enjoying the ease and quickness of getting a foam one out to the field. Why can we not do both?
THANKS FOR A REALLY HELPFUL VIDEO