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Originally Posted by mbauer
Go to a local hobby shop, buy tissue paper for balsa wood airplanes (Silkspan works best) and use "dope" to make it transparent.
Mike
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Obviously we know it doesn't go "transparent"
...but its an option if you don't demand completely see-thru parts.
Dope is primarily used to shrink the "skin" which has been laid over a frame.
But I guess if you used thin, no-colour tissue...with a clear dope...
I would argue that it isn't paper any more...since dope is plasticized lacquer.
(But now, I'm going to start an argument regarding inks and glues that aren't paper either.)
Another problem would be cutting out, forming and gluing a canopy from flimsy tissue paper
and then having it hold its shape while you apply the dope...?
Unless maybe you build a framework inside your canopy
...but then you wouldn't want a clear canopy,
because you will be able to see the framework! lol
So, you could use opaque paper instead...that would make it hard to see the framework...
and then...