I just finished sheeting the top half of my fuse and I am almost ready to mount the horizontal stabilizer here is my problem... I left my fuse sitting on the building board over night and as I come down stairs the next day I discover that the fuse has developed a twist in it overnight!!!! Does anyone have any idea as to how to remove a twist from the fuse? I have never had this happen before...

If you used white glue on the sheeting or some other water-based glue, you can spray everything down with windex and pin it back to the board and let her dry. Some of the twist will come out when you attach the top to the bottom. If she still is twisted to much, you can repeat, but this time place shimes under the fuselage so that you can "over" torque when you pin down. These things can sometimes be hard to fix without re-sheeting.

the twist was not as bad as I thought. once I assembled the bottom half of the spitfire the twist came out almost completly. but some of the parts were fighting eachother at the firewall so when i glued them together i added a bit more wood to hold the joints more securely...I bieleve this will fix the problem. such a wierd thing to happen overnight. I think the temprature change may have effected the sheeting(my workshiop is not heated) but im not sure.

jeff_acal,

Glad to see that most of the twist came out when attaching the bottom to the top. Even if there is a little twist and if the plans call for attaching the horizontal stablizer I might hold off until you can seat the wings to make sure that if you need to adjust the stablizer you can.

Good luck!