Covering foam with film

[sihinch]

Does anyone have any experience of covering a foam model with econocote or monocote type film covering?

I am going to be building this model soon and this gent from RCGroups covered his with film. I think it looks great.

[Papa]

I did one some time back. You have to use one of the really low temperature films.


Solar Film, (UK) SO-Lite.
Ultra Cote Parklite
EconoCote


I used Solar Film and it worked perfectly.


Jack.

[Wingnutz]

Covered the foam(depron) empennage of my Skywriter with econocote. Jack's right, low temperature. With depron, iron is the only way to go...heat gun is too hot.
Covered the balsa framed, balsa sheeted and light ply parts of the Skywriter with econocote also and again used only the iron...with the gun, econocote did not shrink nearly as much as ultracote with which I'm more familiar.
Colour choices with econocote are limited compared to monokote or ultracote.
Good luck with your model!