Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.
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TonyHallo
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Completed wet sanding with 220, just a few spots need filler, the final primer coats will take care of the other low spots. Laying out for the windows and vertical fin. The windows will be cast into the plug along with the right side door. With this in mind, these areas will be masked off before the final primer coat. The bottom of the windows are parallel to the line of thrust so that will help setting up the fuselage after it comes out of the mold. Been studying photos of the doors.
TonyHallo
150cc
I was going to post there but their file size is a real pain. I need to resize all my photos to post there. Thank you for your comment though.
Got the vertical fin on and the remaining windows and door laid out. Used fast cure West Systems epoxy so hopefully later to day I can fill the joint around the fin with SuperFil. The door is an odd shape for sure and I spent a lot of time studying photos and the small three view that I have.
Prime tomorrow.
Got the vertical fin on and the remaining windows and door laid out. Used fast cure West Systems epoxy so hopefully later to day I can fill the joint around the fin with SuperFil. The door is an odd shape for sure and I spent a lot of time studying photos and the small three view that I have.
Prime tomorrow.
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TonyHallo
150cc
The weather was good today. Have a little more work to do on the vertical fin however. Mounted and waxed the plug for the tail cone, put a couple coats of PVA on it too. Will start the mold in the morning. Started thinking about the horizontal stabalator an how it will be made, thinking about molding skins with corrugations and gluing the skins to foam ribs built in a jig, possibly including the servo tab.
Stevendavis
100cc
Very nice work!
TonyHallo
150cc
Thanks Steven.
Didn't care for the door so made a few changes to the radius on the window and bottom of door. Working on the corrugations on the vertical fin. On several of the ends the router bit must have whipped a bit making an odd shaped end point. Now that several coats of primer are on the fin, the grooves are smaller than the 5/16" router bit groove so I'm using a 1/4" dowel as a sanding buck. To repair the ends, a radius was put and the end of a short piece of 1/4" aluminum round bar, this was coated with Vasoline, a dollop on SuperFil placed in the groove and the aluminum rod was pushed against end of the groove until it stopped, this was left in place until the SuperFil cured, this was sanded flush after cured. I tried several methods but works the best. The corrugations are far from perfect but good enough. Have a few layers of glass on the tail cone mold. Working is several areas along with stripping the fabric off the Champ wings, what a pain that is removing all the screws.
Didn't care for the door so made a few changes to the radius on the window and bottom of door. Working on the corrugations on the vertical fin. On several of the ends the router bit must have whipped a bit making an odd shaped end point. Now that several coats of primer are on the fin, the grooves are smaller than the 5/16" router bit groove so I'm using a 1/4" dowel as a sanding buck. To repair the ends, a radius was put and the end of a short piece of 1/4" aluminum round bar, this was coated with Vasoline, a dollop on SuperFil placed in the groove and the aluminum rod was pushed against end of the groove until it stopped, this was left in place until the SuperFil cured, this was sanded flush after cured. I tried several methods but works the best. The corrugations are far from perfect but good enough. Have a few layers of glass on the tail cone mold. Working is several areas along with stripping the fabric off the Champ wings, what a pain that is removing all the screws.