silk. We have it easily available here, I chose the classic tawny, but there are also white, cream and darker tans. Its specification is about 7-17g/㎡, the ductility is very good, and it is very easy to handle the spherical surface. I think its ductility is greater than that of glass fiber, so that I only used 4 small pieces of silk for the whole body (including covering the complex machine. wing root)
After two coats, the texture of the cloth is still obvious. I decided to keep this color as the color of the plane. The splice of the silk will become less and less noticeable over time (as the overall color will get darker and older over time)
This picture is after the first coat, and it can be seen that the splice of the fabric is still obvious in the picture.
I painted this part gray. As pictured, the canopies has also been secured with very small clockwork screws