RE: Building the original Byron P-51 Mustang
Thanks Wayne,
I am going to try to put a couple of hours per evening on it untill it is finished. If the weekends are cold, windy and rainy, I'll get extra time on it. It is little league baseball season once again so there will be alot of evenings that I will not be able to work on it. Baseball for the kids is very cool though and I do enjoy all of the times that I spend with my son - hence my call name Hunter and Jeff.
At this time I am not going to give up what color sceme that I am going to put her in but it will be cool. Right now I need to order a cockpit kit, servos, batteries, Wheels, retractabe tail wheel, a new air tank and a PCM reciever not to mention most of the harware is missing.
Special credit goes to Scot McCory from Colorado for donating a really nice set of retracts from his old crashed (what a bummer) Byron P-51. He just gave them to me for the cost of shipping. People like him in this hobby just makes it all the better - and it seems that in this hobby there are alot of folks like that because we are all talking about and doing the things that we like the most! Thanks, Scott!!!
Back to the build.
I have never glassed a wing before. I have read numerous threads on the subject in the last year. I have done numerous projects in the past where everything was silkspan and dope and I got really good at that before I discovered Monocoat! I am assuming that it is not any more difficult than applying silk and dope to a structure - except you use 30 minute finishing epoxy, polyurethane or fiberglass resin. Now I wouldn't use fiberglass resin on the foam because I heard that the MEK would melt it destroying the wings!
Now I heard that the epoxy is the best because it is thicker, doesn't shrink when it sets and is more user freindly but is very hard, gummy and very difficult to sand. On the other hand, the Polyurethane is easier to sand, costs considerably less, but it takes alot more coats of it to fill all of the glass cloth and low spots. Is there a new epoxy out there that is easier to sand? If so, I will use that.
Comments are very welcome.
Jeff