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Old 01-08-2010 | 04:15 PM
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Default RE: Designing a new pattern model

Hi Alex,
Yes getting on the heavy side.
1100 to 1250 glassed and painted would be good. My Oxai Ventura is 1120g painted inc the rudder.
You mentioned waiting for glass cloth @25g for finishing. That will take a lot of resin to fill.
I would sand & seal the balsa first, get 15g cloth and use lots of microballons. See BM3 threads here.
If that gets much heavier you will not have a model that reflects the potential in your design.
Also go to extremes to get light wings and tails to compensate some.