aviator79's build

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Me tooooo.
eddie

[Clark in AZ]

Nice! That's a milestone in the build. Can't wait to see it mounted.


Clark

[aviator79]

I have most of the fabric on the fuselage. I need to finish up the vertical stab, then install my static ports, and then I'll do the top piece. I really ran to the ragged edge of having enough fabric.

Attaching and shrinking is going pretty nominally. There is a lot of geometry to work around on the side pieces, but it wasn't difficult to figure out. As I believe others have done, I completely covered the triangle window frame. This is purely and aesthetic decision.

On the second side, I glued the bottom first, and as I was gluing the top, I was running into a situation where keeping the glued edge nice and neat resulted in too much slack in the fabric. I did a lot of heat forming and stretching, and I intentionally left some wrinkles in the glued seam to take up some fabric slack, and once I got it attached, it looked kind of a mess. I was half expecting to tear it off and start over. However, with patient use of the iron, everything turned out nice and smooth.

[David47]

Great progress Brian. Never thought of covering the triangular window so I might consider doing the same thing. And I’ve also found that the patient use of the iron on wrinkles can change tears to cheers.

[aviator79]

I covered right over the top of the window, then cut a triangle out with slits at the corners to make tabs that I folded and glued to the back of the angle. The effect is the forward legs of the triangle end up wrapped in fabric.

[David47]

Very neat way of doing it.

[aviator79]

Oh my gosh so much taping. Coming along nicely though.

[Clark in AZ]

Looks great Brian! Really coming along...

Clark

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Lookin Good Brian. I like that shot down the fuse.

[David47]

Yeah, again, first flight before Christmas .... no pressure Brian ... !!