Well before we get to the finishing stuff, let's go back in time to the fuselage build.

Fuselage

The build starts with the cabane mounts. A thin plywood deck with thick plywood mounting blocks for the aluminum cabanes. Not difficult to build but a challange to get your hands in the finished fuse to tighten the screws that secure the cabanes.

Definitely not your typical fuselage construction. This thing is built very strong, in the same tradition as the original Lou Andrews design. No thin sheeting over a stick skeleton. This is balsa planking with a ply inner skin all the way back. The die-cut formers fit well and the assembly is straight forward. No surprises. As you can see, the fuse was built without the front cap permanently installed. Typical turtle deck construction with long stringers giving the Aeromaster its destinctive shape.

Iliked the provided pushrod guide tubes very much. The angles were worked out very nicely for low friction smooth operation. Three are needed. One for the rudder and two for the separate elevators. Since I'm not running a separate servo for a tail wheel, Iused the extra tube for the antenna wire. (It's getting pretty lonely at 72MHz.). The tubes sanded nice and flush for a very clean exit out of the fuselage.

Next, the finishing in preparation for covering.