Wing Fairings
The full size plane has some prominent wing fairings added after the wing is attached. I wanted to highlight this area and decided to use 1/64" plywood to make this shape. I have a 1/5 scale engineering plan of the full size plane and I made a rough template out of that score-and-break plastic sheeting. I had to lay out a panel line to locate it in the approximate area. I followed a basic technique for making the fairings I found in Model Airplane News by Nick Zirolli. It uses a 1/32" plywood sheet and a carbon strip to form most of the edge. Carbon doesn't like to bend around curves very well. After gluing it down, I made fillets and then planked with balsa strips. I used a light weight Bondo like fairing compound from Fibre Glast. They make some nice products for modelers. It sands easily and worked well to finish the edges. I'll use balsa and this compound to shape the belly pan. There is no real good way to make this union of wing and fuselage scale, so "pseudo-scale" will have to do for a removable wing.