Here are a couple of progress pictures from last night and yesterday. I really love building and creating planes that won’t have their clones showing up at the field. What I really despise in this process is how much time I take to cover. It’s a double edged sword – make the pattern easy to apply and less time consuming to cut and iron down and I’m less satisfied with the results. I have no one to blame but me for the pain endured in covering. Okay, therapy session over.

The three pictures below show progress over the last 2 days. Picture1 is of the Top Wing (finished back in March) and the ailerons that I covered yesterday. Fortunately when I cut the covering for the wing, there was enough extra to lie down onto the aileron keeping me from crafting the black & white pattern. All I had to do was line it up and iron it down.

I then created the wing “sheet” by piecing together the black and white stripes as I had done before (for an explanation of this see page 11 of this thread). Once the sheet was made, it was fairly easy to iron it down and hit it with the heat gun. Picture2 shows the Bottom wing half covered and mostly trimmed.

The Bottom wings have the servos mounted in them (I did the dual aileron modification), so the access hatches have to be cutout of the covering. Picture3 shows the hatch cutout in the right wing.

Progress? Yeah, I suppose it is. I hope to wrap up the left side and the sunburst pattern on the tops over the weekend. We’ll see how far I can get as the sunburst pattern has a bit more measured cutting.

Picture1 – Aileron bottoms covered to match stripe pattern
Picture2 – Bottom wing half covered
Picture3 – Servo hatch cutout

-MA