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Old 05-05-2021, 01:41 AM
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grahamj4
 
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Bit by bit I've been blocking in underneath the nose ready to carve it to shape, so now I think I'm ready to start that. I started builing up the belly pan now the centre joint has been fibreglassed. I'll have to take the wing off to finish or I'll end up building the bolts in!




I built the fin. OK i built it twice 'cos i stuffed up and it was the wrong shape the first time... Good thing about these laser cut parts is if the next piece doesn't fit them something went awry before that. I've rough carved it so far and will finish it off a little more before I glue it to the TB1 block. Then I laminated TB2 which does under the tail. I felt it was necessary to sandwich in an extra 2mm balsa layer to make sure the block was thick enough.




Lastly I epoxied the stabiliser in place. It was necessary to use epoxy because of the fiberglass join. I had to sand the cutout for the stabiliser for a better fit, and now that it is glued in I'll need to triple check the incidences for accuracy.


Does make a nice silhouette though!

Take care everyone, Graham

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