I wrapped up progress today before slipping out to the neighborhood Super Bowl party. I spent about 2 ½ hours on the ailerons today and believe I am now done covering the wings and the ailerons! A major covering milestone considering this is the main part of the plane’s covering difficulty – at least as far as the patterns go…

I really love Bipes; this is my first bipe kit (I’ve got a GP Super Skybolt kit sitting in the corner) and I won’t be tackling another any time soon! Hehe.

Anyway, I started off by “dry fitting” the aileron onto the wing to determine how to extend the sunburst pattern (picture1). Once I got the rough measurement, I cut some white Ultracoat to the proper distance and covered the aileron. Next, using a dry erase marker, I extended the black trim line onto the aileron. After cutting out the proper size orange piece, I laid the orange on top of the white in order to see the black marker line. I transferred that line to the orange piece, cut it, and applied as normal. The result is what you see in picture2 (I already applied the trim line here). Wash, rinse, lather and repeat another 3 times for all the ailerons (picture3).

Finally, I just had to display both wings in their current state. Displayed in picture4 as they will appear on the fuse. Kinda cool, if I do say so myself. [8D]

Isn’t this hobby/sport fun?

Picture1 – Aligning the pattern onto the aileron
Picture2 – One done … three more to go
Picture3 - … and here are the two matched sets.
Picture4 – Just had to take this picture; both wings all dressed and looking for a fuselage.