Krill 39% Ultimate 300KS Assembly And Paint

[stangflyer]

Not in a little while. The owner of the plane just took his wife on vacation, and it's Christmas, so he is waiting before he spends any more money on an engine and exhaust.

Tell him he needs a Kolm
Lol

It's all in the Glassing and Painting thread. It's scattered all over the thread starting on page 2.
http://giantscalenews.com/threads/glassing-and-painting-techniques.1536/

This post gives the basic fiberglassing rundown. There is a lot more throughout the thread.

http://giantscalenews.com/threads/glassing-and-painting-techniques.1536/page-14#post-36388

Thank you. These will help a heap.

 

[Jetpainter]

Hard to believe it's been a month and a half since I've worked on this thing. I'm still waiting on a few key parts, but tonight I'm going to start making a tray behind the firewall to hold the batteries and throttle servo. I can't mount the engine yet, because I'm waiting for some 1/2" standoffs, but they should be here any day, then I'm out of excuses.

 

[Jetpainter]

I actually got a few things accomplished on the Ultimate this weekend. The batteries and throttle servo are going to be mounted on a tray behind the firewall. I started making a cardboard pattern for that, and I also marked the top of the engine dome for some cutouts to reach through to access the things up front. The ignition will be mounted to the dome from behind between the cutouts.

I also got the engine mounted. I used some wire ties to hang the engine from the cabanes so I could mark the placement with the lower half of the cowl on. It worked surprisingly well. After marking it I took it apart and held the standoff base in place on the mark and used a 1/4" spur bit by hand to make a center mark in my tape, then drilled them out. I was surprised to see that the firewall didn't have any wood in it, just fiberglass and lots of carbon fiber.

I'm going to need a bit more gap on the spinner, but I'm using a Blazing Star mount, and SWB standoffs, and the standofffs came with several adjustment washers. I was dreading drilling and mounting the engine since I can't stand a bad spinner gap. I'm very happy with how it fits!

 

[Snoopy1]

Good to see you are back at it again and all looks good. Yes I agree when a spinner fits to cowl nicely it looks so much better. What’s with the cowl looks like a crack across the top not very good if that is how it came out of the box.

 

[Pistolera]

That's a mold seam line. I've been working hard to eliminate every one on my Krill

 

[Pistolera]

BTW - engine mounting looks great!

 

[Snoopy1]

That's a mold seam line. I've been working hard to eliminate every one on my Krill

That would NOT make me happy because I would want to fix that but do have the paint to match that colour, can you get the paint from Krill.

 

[Jetpainter]

I'll be removing all the mold seams when we paint it.
That is one place where Carf is better than Krill. Carf has made a point to get rid of as many mold lines as they can in their newer airplanes.

 

[Jetpainter]

That would NOT make me happy because I would want to fix that but do have the paint to match that colour, can you get the paint from Krill.

I'm not sure. You can from Carf, I've done that a few times. I don't know if Krill sells theirs or not.

 

[Jetpainter]

I've been fitting the headers and cans, plus I cut the access holes in the top of the engine dome. I also swapped a 1/16" washer on each standoff for an 1/8" one. The spinner gap was just too tight. It looks about right now.