rugrad02

Hello,

I am about to start building a Tower Hobbies Fun 51. It will arrive probably this week. I have a question about covering. Do I have to cover the plane after fixing the wing and tail sections? Can I cover the wing and tail sections seperately and then put them on? Thanks

KB

GarySS

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People do it both ways. Probably the neatest is to glue first and then cover because your covering will go over the glue joints and gaps. But that way is a P.ain I.T.A.

If you glue after you cover, alcohol removes epoxy from covering if you wipe it away quickly and with several fresh alcohol cloths.

Danh4

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I worried about it too, but finally decided to cover mine after gluing the wing and stab in place and it turned out to be pretty easy. In fact, I covered each fuselage side, including the fin, with one big piece of covering that had a hole cut it it to slide down over the wing. I used Ultracote for the first time on my Fun51 and I think that helped. Just iron strips of covering in the angles where the wing/fuselage and stab/fuselage meet first and the rest is easy.

Fragmentum

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I built mine several years ago and it has a couple hundred flights by now.

I covered after it was all glued together. I made fillets between the fuse and wing and made a strip over that to seal the fuse covering and the wing covering.
Petie 2nd was covered in as close to the real plane as I could at the time. There is a real P-51D at the Waukesha, WI airport with the same paint scheme.
It is covered in Monocoat. The antenna s routed through a hole up through the fuse and routed at scale out the 'canopy' and back to the top of the tail.

It is a FUN fun fly plane, and I have won many a contest with it!!!!!!![8D]

Danh4

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Now that's a pretty plane! I see you have an LA on yours like I do, is yours LOUD like mine is? I don't know if it's the fuselage or the space in the wing but mine amplifies the sound or vibration from the .46 LA and sounds terrible in the air.

Dan

Fragmentum

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It is just a tad noisier, and that is the 'drum' effect coming from the wing I think.....
I chose the engine for the color, of all considerations! Dumb, I know, but it WAS the correct color for the 'Blue Nosed *******s of Bodney' 352nd Fighter Group scheme I was using at the time...