Gluing Model Airplane Canopies

Also if the airplane wears camouflage paint the color separation lines on the real thing sometimes fall on the canopy which is difficult to get exactly right if the canopy is painted separately.

Gluing model airplane canopies.

To combat these disadvantages some modelers prefer to glue the canopy in place on the model fill any gaps then mask it then start to paint. Great planes cap 232 clear unpainted uncut canopy 60 25. The glue is waterproof when cured. Today there are at least two sources.

I use it on plastic scale models and it works great as a craft glue. It is really strong and does dry super clear. This is a clear drying glue used for gluing canopies glass over cockpit to remote control and model aircraft. Spots of glue or squiggly framework on clear parts can spoil a model more surely than anything.

The glue can be used to glue canopies of aircraft models or windscreens of car model without fear of them getting damaged. One is testor s the other is pacer. If you accidentally put the glue where you don t want it just wipe it off with a moistened q tip. In the 1990s wilhold stopped making this glue.

The source used to be wilhold a big glue company and their product was named r c 56 for radio control obviously alluding to model airplanes. In this sixth episode we look at. That s why you read so many articles and tips about it. There are parts of an aircraft model where you can get away with mistakes.

But if you ve ever loused one up you are in excellent company. A series in now 14 parts going through the whole modelling process from start to finish of an airfix messerschmitt bf109e. I would not even try using this glue to bond the canopy on a nitro plane with monokote.