Things have slowed down while waiting for the wing kits, however they haven’t stopped all together. A cradle/stand was made to house the wings when they’re off the “posts” and the posts themselves have been measured out and added to the garage. Space is getting tighter… The base of the wing support posts is seen […]
I noted that when I was little, these things were called fins. That keeps going through my mind as I sand away at the filler and primer, staring at the metal structure. The fin is almost done. Fin tip is final sanded, and needs only one more coat of primer. Rudder tip primed with filling […]
A lot of Bondo added to the tips, and again, 99% sanded off. Well, maybe not 99%. It takes a bit of thickness to get these lines to flow. More than the elevators. It’s looking good. Final sanding and primer tomorrow.
The past couple days have been two steps forward, one (or two) steps back. But it’s not awful. The first iteration of glass on the vertical stabilizer tip was flawed. Once it was glassed it was easy to see there wasn’t enough clearance. Rather than play games like I did on the horizontal stab, I […]
Well, hopefully I can make shorter work out of the rudder fiberglass. The elevators and stabilizers took way longer than I’d like. The rudder pieces fit about as well as the others: not great. The vertical stabilizer tip doesn’t have a great line that flows into the rudder. It sits low and droops. I see […]
Well, the tips are done. For now. I’ve left them unriveted, and there’s still some pinholes left to fix before paint. Again, gotta leave something for the painter, right? I’m really happy these came out well. Taking some time here paid off. I’ll leave them unrevited for now, and package up these pieces to allow […]
Progress on the tips. They’re really coming together and nearly complete. (Or complete enough for me—have to save some work for the painter.) I staggered production and was using body filler to fill small low spots, final sanding, filling primer, and final primer on all parts at different times. This kept me hopping and progress […]
I touched up the tips with some auto body filler. Used sparingly, it offers a quick drying, small batch solution for some low spots. It does dry harder than the epoxy-flox, so sanding is a bit of chore to ensure high spots don’t turn to low spots. First coat of high build primer was added […]