RE: Royal-FW190A8
didn't get much done this weekend worked Sat and was really burnt out and didn't get to the hood latch.
but I wanted to start the process of making the gear doors,I decided to use balsa instead of fiberglass for the wing skin portion.
to do this I cut some light weight 3/32 balsa sheeting to length and tacked it along the edges to the wing area at the wheel wells with blue tape, then misted the wood with a alcohol and water mix on the exposed area.
I made sure to clean up the excess with a paper towel but the wood was fairly wet when I placed a strapping piece of tape at the wheel section of the retract bay, this is where the cover conforms to the shape of the lower wing skin I wasn't worried about the inside of the sheeting since I wanted a outside curve and the water mix swelled the outer portion of the wood making it naturally curve in the direction I was aiming for.
this will be left over night to dry in place and should have a nicely preformed skin to work from,the 3/32 balsa also will be thick enough to have some area to sand to shape before I glass them.
next step will be carefully cutting the skins and some infrastructure for mounting the doors onto the struts.