Date: August 20, 2009

Guilty as charged.. I've been walking around this airplane for nearly a year. Now I'm back to it, trying to cover it.

I got sidetracked with a couple other planes, an UltraSport 60, and a Sig Hog Bipe. But I'm back to this one.

I chose to continue my red-white-blue theme on my trainer. But with a twist. I chose transparent red, pearl white, and transparent blue. I discover that working with transparent covering has it's challenges. When you overlap pieces, the tint gets darker. There isn't much you can do about it, so it's there. I did try a couple techniques that lessens the double-tint impact. When I put the trim piece over the hinge joint, I trimed it back even with the trailing edge and moving surface. Then, when the other pieces overlap it, the overlap will be in the hinge joint, not on the open surface. That seems to help. It's one thing to have overlap in an out-of-the-way corner, but another to have it on a long line of an aileron or elevator joint.

Tonight, I have the tail feather all but finished. I only need to add the white leading edge. But tomorrow I can start on the long fuselage pieces. Once I open the roll of white, I'll add the leading edge piece.

Picture 1: The blue on the rudder, and top of elevator.
Picture 2: The bottom of the elevator. Covered in tinted red, seam piece also installed.
Picture 3: The bottom of the tail-feathers
Picture 4: I need to cover the rudder hatches, and connect the rudder control arms.
Picture 5: The top of the tailfeather. Need to install white leading edge yet.
Picture 6: You can see through the build up tail fin.