Apparently, the entire covering on the corner of the trailing edge was not sealed, this is no big deal, but also notice the chunk of wing nearest the fuse is heavily scratched. The wing was delivered to me this way, I thought I'd just deal with it and re-seal and tape the side where the covering dosen't seal. Or maybe I should re-cover that whole section. Never really having worked a heat iron, it is possible to make the covering as good as the original?

Thanks for any answers, this is a great forum.

I've had quite a few ARFs & it seems like only the ones that I REALLY want to fly right away have a problem like that. I've found the best thing to do is just go ahead and fix what needs to be done. Unless it's a real big mess, I don't think I would recover the whole wing, & yes you can make it look as good as the original .Unless it is a major problem with the plane, you'll spend more time boxing up-- sending back--waiting forever to get it back, only to have the retailer call & say, "What did you say was wrong again?" It looks like the covering damage is not a big deal. If you're going to stay in this hobby, you'll end up getting an heating iron anyway. While you're at it go ahead & get a bottle of medium CA glue & a roll of clear shipping tape( you'd be surprised what you can fix with those 3 things. You can practically build a plane. !! Good luck

I'd try to find out what the covering is and buy a roll. Then trim the red to just before the first rib and seal all edges with iron, leaving just that one bay to recover. It will look fine, just a thin band of darker (overlapped) covering along that first rib.

The covering will come in handy for later repairs, and when you eventually do your first recover or (gasp) kit build.

I find my planes always fly a bit better with a few repairs and patches too!.....

Cam

Since only such a small section is affected I would first try to iron it down.

Then apply a bit of thin CA at the edge to glue the covering in place against the yellow covering.

That should be more than strong enough.

At worst you can then apply a strip of clear ( or colored ) covering larger than, but over the repaired area.

If you put an identical strip on the other wing, no one will know it wasn't there to begin with, except you.

Thanks for all suggestions… I ended up ironing out the edges of the loose film; its pretty tight now. I do see that having a covering iron around does help a lot as I do use masking tape when mounting the wing servos, and film does come loose. Might be a nice experiment to build a plane from scratch; not sure how flyable it would be afterwards

Getting closer!