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Old 10-21-2008, 04:41 PM
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Default RE: Top Flite 1/7 P-51 Build

Thanks, guys.

I got most of the techniques from reading Faye Stilley's books on covering, such as making templates and cutting the sections over glass. For covering open areas, like the rudder, Faye says to glue the pieces together with trim solvent, also over glass, but that you can't shrink it much cause it will pull apart. So, I ironed the rudder pieces together over glass, and had no problems with shrinking it all later on. This worked so well that I might someday build a Spad XIII. The one thing that was stopping me was that all the Spad XIII's with squared off wingtips like the one in my plans were done in camo, which means I'd need all the techniques I learned on the P-51.