ORIGINAL: ejam
Here are some pictures of the wing covering finished and the doubler.
One thing that I was thinking about while build step 5, if I glued it when it states, will it bend when you get to the step to glue the rear of fuse together. So I thought it would be better to crack the parts and not cut them and glue them after the rest of the fuse was in place.
ejam,
I think you did the proper thing. I ran into a similar situation building the wings of my sailpane.
The wings leading edge has two bends in each wing side.
The drawings show a cut 2/3 throught the cross section and I tried to do it that way .
The wood being soft it broke on the first attempt at bending.
I sanded the crosssections to the angle and butt glued them.A little piece of scrap 1/16" thick ply was glued as reinforcement behind the leading edge .
In the prototype the wood used for the leading edge was no doubt harder wood that could stand the bending. So they showed that on the drawings. Whoever makes a prototype can select the wood hardness but whoever assembles a kit does not necessarily have that privilege.
The wood quality or hardness is not always the same in theassembled kits.
The extra strength gained with harder balsa in some structure location is often well worth the slight gain in weight.
Thanks for your pictures and please let us have more pics as you progress.
You are doing great.
Zor