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 […]
The epoxy-flox mixture applied over the weekend was sanded down. In all abut a few places, the tips looked great. Despite my best efforts, there were still a few low spots, and a few areas that chipped out when removing the tips. In addition to the tips, I remedied the counterweight issue I created weeks […]
Yesterday and today were filled with sanding off the fairing compound (not what it’s called) and then mixing up another batch and layering more on. I think I’ve hit most of hit most of the low spots, and should be able to sand it all back down (once hardened) and get a good idea of […]