Kane,

Pearly white looks like a drab light grey under artificial light...looks better outside under natural light, except on a dull day like most non-summer days, when it looks like a drab light grey, kind of the same colour as the sky...... oh well... i'm a bit committed now!!!

Regards,

Steve

I still prefer normal white.

I thought carbon shatters easy [:@] thats what Ali said to me.

Err, excuse me??

I use the DB sport and scale wing retainers. Works very well.

Sprink,

The DB ones look good..

Right, on with the build....

Hatch, showing SLEC sprung hatch catch... makes it easy!

I knocked up a radius tool, to ensure a uniform radius along the length of the fuselage underside...

made from ply, sandpaper, copydexed on. used cowl as template for radius.
Insulation tape stops corners digging in .

Taped in some 1200 over the top of the coarse stuff for a final sand...

Worked a treat!

Here's how i covered those pesky holes in the firebocks.....


Solartex and a light coat of clearcoat....

And here is the finally completed fuselage, now ready to cover.....

Regards,

Steve

nice

quite difficult fitting the whole thing into the photo indoors isnt it

Berk you had better hurry the postmans on his way

Luke looks like he took the shot from the top of the stairs to get it all in [8D]

Postman?

I'll hop on me bike.. even I can manage 6 miles!!!!

Regards,

Steve

haha! sorry.....lol

Berk, looks nice

Berk you no the fuel tank and Firewall box at the front i think mine is done the same way but all ove the box

P.S
Lookin GOOD!

Kane,

The only reason I used Solartex over the holes is that very light glass cloth doesn't take up resin too well over open spaces, and I ended up with blobs of resin rather than a neatly filled weave!

The bloke who built yours is obviously a practiced master and managed to glass the box and cover the holes in one go!


I had a disaster last night....

Bottom covered, great, all ok...
Added a Fuselage side piece, looked good apart from a tiny grain of dust under the film. In trying to relift the film i introduced a crease I could not get rid of... removed all film, which lifted all filler, spent rest of evening removing glue deposits, and getting a sanded finish back to a point when I can cover it again!!!

should have lived with it....


Regards,

Steve

you must be a princess!

Hey Berk i looked at the picture of the front of your C140 and i looked at the tubing ,do you have a 2 way tank?

Yep, dead right....

The plumbing is per the YS Performance and probuild websites...

KISS philosophy, an extra tube is an extra chance of a leak!!

Regards,

Steve

Yep mines only got two tubes too

Better night tonight....

Got both sides covered, all looking good..

only trouble is our cooking fat ate the end of my rudder... and the neighbours been round tonight and told us he's on the dangerous animal register.. he's a pet cat !!!!

Regards,

Steve

ow cause mine is a tree way tank it it has one to the pump and that has a t-peice on the pipe for the filler, the other is the exaust and the last one is the pressure.

Hey who else has two way tanks coz ive got a tree way i was wondering is it worth changing it for a two-way tank.

If it works leave it.

Angus

ps all mine are two vent tanks (L and DZ's) but in my Synergy (DZ) its got a header to ensure no bubbles get in and its got a foam clunk in the main tank. In the Capiche (DZ) its just got a foam clunk and no header and its been 99% ok.

what is a two way tank?

a tank with only 2 lines

any tank can be like that?

Yep, Most are, you have to pierce through the part bored 3rd hole in the bung if you want to make it 3 way..

got dust in 2 places under the covering!![:@][:@][:@].. trying to live with it...

Regards,

Steve