I thought it was one of those wooden insect kits.

 

Paul

 

Bob I as an aero chappie my self I wouldn’t recommend solafilm not that durable and most don’t take paint that well (highly glossed) however solatex (which I think your refering to) is A) heavier and B) textured so would give strength and takes any sort of paint you want to through at it. However getting it to wrap smoothly over the complex curves of a hull is an aquired art form in itself. My personal recommendation to substitute Glass skinning is a product called poly-c (just google that to find it) simply its water based varnish with added adhesives and is used in conjunction with either tissue (use a heavyweight one on boats) or glass cloth or nylon cloth. a google search should take you RCWorlds web site and they sell all of the above the real beauty of this stuff is the ease of clean up and when set it can be sanded, will take any paint and if using glow fuel is even proof against that. I have a polystyrene foam aircraft I covered with it and it just bounces when I screw the landing up so pretty strong too.

On the subject of how much strength the glass cloth adds. its considerably more than just resin alone, this is in my experiance prone to cracking without the cloth reinforcing it. are you using laminating resin or just that stuff you get in car repair shops. I’m told the later causes problems by setting to fast