The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

[pawnshopmike]

A couple weeks ago Great Planes had a sale on their 60" Fling DL. I've been wanting a larger DLG ever since I picked up one of the UMX Whipits last year so I couldn't resist. It's a pretty old ARF. The manual says 2005 on the cover. I started un-boxing it last night and the covering looked horrible. Worst I'd ever seen. Lucky for me, @Decal Dennis was there and he wasted no time working his magic with the heat gun and iron. In no time at all he had it looking perfect.

I didn't have a lot of shop time today but I did manage to join the wing halves together.

 

[BalsaDust]

So while I was in my shop yesterday repairing my mojo and working on a project for the wife I overheard my old beat down mojo talking to the new mojo. It was telling the other things to do and things not to do like to just say no to a video contest that crippled its wing last year. I said the hell with it. Got my templates and plans out and cut some new parts and framed up a new wing for it. Still needs sheeting but it's just about ready to graft onto the old wing and cover it all up.

 

[Bartman]

haven't seen my shop since just before Joe Nall but I ordered fresh CA glue today so I'm getting close!

 

[BalsaDust]

New wing panel framed and installed. Thinking I will complelty strip the plane and do a fancy covering scheme on it.

 

[pawnshopmike]

I found a couple old build threads on the Fling DLG. They had some good tips on beefing up a couple weak points. One being the center section where the wing halves join. So today I stripped some of covering off the middle of the wing and wrapped it in a couple layers of fiberglass cloth and 30 minute epoxy. That's about as far as I got today. Was hoping to mount the tail feathers but I have to have the wing on first to be able to square up the tail feathers.

 

[Jetpainter]

I built a fiberglass hatch to cover the tuned pipe exit on my scratch build project. I still need to cut the exit hole and some vents into it.

 

[Snoopy1]

I built a fiberglass hatch to cover the tuned pipe exit on my scratch build project. I still need to cut the exit hole and some vents into it.
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Boy that was quick and looking good. The cooling louvres better look real sexy. Can you make like they use to do on the hood of old cars. That will look coooool.

 

[BalsaDust]

Some probro buddies have been asking for copies of the edge profiles I've been building so it was finally time to get my tracings out and go over them with a extra fine point sharpie so they scan well. Got the fuse and rudder done. Will do the stab and wing in the morning.

 

[Decal Dennis]

4th of July inspired...........preliminary graphics job I'm clicking away on

 

[HRRC Flyer]

Hey Dennis,

The picture you just posted leaves me with a question. can you scale the wavy flag to 104" long x approximately 24" deep with proportionally correct (length wise) size stars and the break between the blue & red/white right in the middle? It would look AWESOME on the top of my AMR Stick wing. . . . . .