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Create a Checkerboard Scheme

Checkerboard
This simple design can have a big impact on your aircraft's color scheme! We start the same way by spraying the glass with window cleaner, then removing the backing from the Ultracote and then pressing it down on the glass. This will keep the covering in place while cutting out the checkerboard. Lay down a ruler and start cutting out the strips going one way. Fortunately for me, the width of my ruler was perfect...

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