Hi Pete,

Thanks! I was thinking the same thing, not sure if the Air Force will give us what we need, the club may cancel the display![&o]

Your welcome John, glad to help!

More progress....

This is the lightest, strongest easiest type of glass finish I’ve found. Z-Poxy thinned with Denatured Alcohol. Once you try it you’ll never use anything else, say goodbye to credit card squeegees, toilet tissue trying to soak up excess resin and getting epoxy all over yourself and everything in your shop!

These are my finishing materials: Z-Poxy, Denatured Alcohol, Bondo Spot Putty, Acetone and for primer I use Brite Touch.

First mix your epoxy and thin it with the Alcohol, this is not a scientific percentage, just around 60 percent resin to 40 percent Alcohol will do fine. If the resin starts to thicken just add more alcohol. All you want is enough resin on your plane to bond the glass to the wood, no more! Adding a second coat of resin is ridiculous and will only add weight and work, nothing else. Once the alcohol evaporates, all that is left is a very thin coat of resin, no other sanding or work is needed, your done with the resin! Just trim the cloth and do the other side. This is a very ding resistant surface, once resin is soaked into the balsa, the balsa becomes very hard.

Next we need to fill the weave of the cloth, this is done with some of the easiest stuff to sand in the world, Bondo Spot Putty. Thin this with Acetone to make it just a little thicker than the consistency of milk and just paint it on. It dries super fast and will be ready to sand smooth in no time, just use some 320 grit sandpaper.

Go over any bad spots or nicks you may have missed with un-thinned spot putty and sand smooth.

Give it a good coat of primer and then sand smooth, ready for final detailing and color!

Dion