[QUOTE=speedracerntrixie;12759701]
Originally Posted by
combatpigg
As would I. The fuselage sides look solid so I’m thinking balsa is improbable but not impossible. It flies much lighter then 6.5 kg though. Many people have a hard time believing my Divergent pattern airplane weighs just 4.5 kg being a fiberglass fuselage and balsa sheeted foam wing and stabs. All paint finish as well. That includes the 5100 mah 10 Lipo call battery. It took a few years to develop the fiberglass layup to be strong enough but not overbuilt.
I would have guessed the Fokker weighs 6.5 pounds.not kilos.
Your plane turned out very light.and very nice..!
It would take me a quart of primer / filler and a quart of paint [at least] to paint it with Klasskote.
It's very easy for ideas that involve fiberglass and epoxy paint to get heavy.
I worked at a FG sailboat factory in HS and controlling weight was one of the managers biggest responsibilties
.If the boat was in danger of turning out too heavy, the final [3rd?] layer of matte was going to recover more effort for the laminators to roll into the previous layer.
I experimented a little with FG cloth over a 1/16" balsa sheet box fuselage and it turned out plenty strong for a .40 sized project. I can't recall the weight of the cloth...I think 2 oz was used on the outside and also on the inside from the firewall to the wing saddle.