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Old 12-14-2010, 10:02 AM
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I am not sure if by "paste them", you mean "radius them", but if not, then a good first step is to radius (or round-out) the corners with a mix of microballoons and resin. Also, if the cloth strands run at a 45 degree bias to the curve(s), it will conform to complex shapes better. Often a relief cut is necessary . . . think of this as what you do with Monocote (or similar covering material) to get it to lay down around rounded wingtips, etc. Sometimes, I find I still cannot get the cloth to conform in a hand layup, so I have to resort to smaller pieces, &/or putting one piece on one side, and another piece on the other side of the curve, then just overlap a bit on the curve itself.

See posts #17 - 25 on page 1, and post #54 on page 3 on the thread linked below for pictures and specific steps that I have used successfully, even with just simple hand-layups (I don't have fancy vacuum bagging equipment, yet.):

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_96..._1/key_/tm.htm

Hope there is a least onelittle usable "nugget" that would be helpful to you.

Ollie
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