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Step 4Shrinking the tissue
- Begin by filling the spray bottle with half and half rubbing alcohol and water, too much alcohol well cause the glue to soften and the tissue well come lose and not shrink properly.
- Set the spray bottle to generate a fine mist of alcohol.
- Spray the surface to be shrunk, on wings with dihedral shrink one section at a time and shrink both the top and bottom of the wing at the same time.
- On flying surfaces, wings and tail, to keep them from warping set them on the building board and pin them flat and let the tissue dry before removing it.
- If there is a section of covering where a wrinkle did not stretch out you can respray the model again to shrink it even further. You can also spray it with strait water which shrinks the tissue more but can also warp the surface more if it is not pinned down well. If that does not work you might have to recover that section.
- Set the spray bottle to generate a fine mist of alcohol.
- Spray the surface to be shrunk, on wings with dihedral shrink one section at a time and shrink both the top and bottom of the wing at the same time.
- On flying surfaces, wings and tail, to keep them from warping set them on the building board and pin them flat and let the tissue dry before removing it.
- If there is a section of covering where a wrinkle did not stretch out you can respray the model again to shrink it even further. You can also spray it with strait water which shrinks the tissue more but can also warp the surface more if it is not pinned down well. If that does not work you might have to recover that section.
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