Hello, I would like to make my own metal foil and have seen a couple of diffrent ways to do this on you tube, I have in the past made bare foil using microscale bare metal foil adhesive and aluminum foil with no problem works great but i have to use it right away or it it gets contaminated and is wasted to the trash. i have seen a clip where wax paper or something like it is used to great results but i can not find this type of paper i have looked at Staples, Michaels, and they dont have a clue as to what i am asking for. So if anyone can help me with this that would be great, Thank you and have a wonderful day.
Maybe you are refering to this Ultra Thin Doubled Sided tape material.
For brick and mortar shopping, look into electronic supply shops, autobody shops, and maybe stationary shops.
If you are referring to the old time waxed paper they used to wrap brown bag sandwiches in before zip-locks, try the local grocery store back in the foil wrap section.
You could just use the thinner grades of aluminum foil, too. It’s usually the cheaper grade than the thicker aluminum foil. I think there are a couple of builds in the Aircraft forum that illustrate using kitchen foil, with white glue as the adhesive. I remember a build of Monogram’s B-29 kit, using kitchen foil.
Also, here is a thread at the ARC forum, demostrating using kitchen foil and Micro Scale foil adhesive:
http://www.arcair.com/tnt1/101-200/tnt137-BMF-Popojan/00.shtm
OK, and here is the B-29 build I was thinking of, it’s also at ARC:
http://www.arcair.com/Gal5/4601-4700/gal4687-B-29-Shred/00.shtm
I will try this myself, some day, just haven’t gotten around yet to queuing up an NMF subject in my modeling queue.
Hope those articles help!
Best regards,
Brad