Washi Tape

[Donivanp]

And yes I'm serious!

 

[Ralph Haus]

Washi tape arrived. Super thin and very colorful. A bit tackier than Taymia. Also it dosent want to be used for curves like Taymia. Still A keeper for the price especially for filler and straighr runs.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Ralph. Looking forward to some tests

 

[Ralph Haus]

Washi tape report. These tapes just needed to be tested for their 'stickiness' as would affect the finish/paint that they are applied to. To test the 'mt' Washi tape I applied a piece of the two widths, 7mm and 15mm, plus an 18mm Tamiya tape piece, as a control, to the fuselage of my sacrificial bird. The tape to the raw plastic was to test their paint edge control. Got to love the colors selected!!

A full area spray of Tamiya XF-65 was applied and let set for a bit over an hour. I then applied the same tapes to the rear fuselage painted area.

After about 3 hours, A coat of Taymia XF-59 was then applied to the rear second taped area. I purposely thinned the paint, almost to the point where it was not covering, with the intent of possibly affecting the tape and/or the paint under the tape.

Zoom in if you wish, but other than the super thinned XF-59 migrating into the panel lines the tape edges held. And more importantly, there was no peel off of any of the first XF-65 coat. If I had really pressed hard on the tapes, where the panel lines bled over, I believe this two would have not happened?

My conclusion? Tamiya, while a great tape, has some competition. I will most likely continue to use the Tamiya brand on build areas where any screw-ups would cause major problems, but for those areas that are more forgiving; why use the high $ stuff?

I need to add that while the Washi tape, in my opinion, is good, it does not want to take any mild bending like Tamiya does.

 

[fubar57]

Nice review Ralph, thanks