A special episode looking back at one year of building.
SE 1 One Year of Building
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SE 1 One Year of Building
EP1.16 Rudder Tips
Rudder Update
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 […]
More Rudder Tips
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.
Rudder Tips
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 […]
EP1.15 Stabilizer Completion
Rudder Fiberglass
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 […]
Elevator, Stabilizer Tips “Complete”
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 […]
Rounding Third
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 […]
Light at the End of the Tunnel
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 […]