Originally Posted by
acdii
Thanks, that fits with what I was thinking they would be. Next week I will have that part done, and hopefully get some of the fuse covered.
Nice! look forward to seeing it finished.
Believe it or not, I just realized you're building the 1/5 sig cub, lol ... I have their 1/4 scale cub which had a slightly different approach regarding those filler pieces... originally it used a couple pieces of 1/8 balsa sheeting to fill in after the last former along side the base of the vertical fin... I didn't think much of that idea so I replaced it with a balsa block and just sanded it to shape (same as you)... you end up sanding a lot of it away to get the shape, so I really don't think the added weight is an issue, and being solid balsa there's no chance of any warpage occurring... when I start to recover it, I'm going to try to cover the top side of the fuse and both sides of the vehicle fin with one piece of covering... that way there won't be a seam down the middle of the spine.
John M,