![]() ![]() My laser cutter mistakenly cut the upper vertical fins in 1/4 stock. Once you have things correct mark and glue in place. When placing your engine mount in the body tube bring the aft centering ring within a quarter inch of the end of the tube. Next cut the opening to fit your engine retainer. Place on a flat surface and using a piece of wood elevate a pen as shown and turn the tailcone. Make sure you cut the exact edge at the base to be level. In this sequence of pictures you will see how I cut the part. Only a small part of the part provided in your kit is used. Many of you might be confused with the vacumformed tail cone as it has webbig as a result of the deep draw on the vacumforming machine. You can download this decal sheet and print them on water slide decal paper if you want the extra scale decals or email me for the larger file and I’ll send them to you. You can use electrical tape for the retainer in the middle of the engine tube. You’ll need to notch the forward CR for the engine clip to move enough to insert a motor. Later on I balsa filled and sanded again before sealing the wood.įor the motor mount I don’t use engine blocks and the engine tube is long enough to accommodate D-E engines. I also taped off the wings and tails so I could sand the tunnel to a more scale like shape without score the wings and tails. Use thin CA to glue the skin thoroughly to the body tube. You’ll have to bend and hold the front to maintain the contour.įrom there trim off the excess and sand to shape. Next up is to use the 1/32 tunnel skins and starting at the back of the plane lightly tac in place and then line up the forward section at the LE and tac again making sure it aligned properly. Once the 1./16 x 1/2 balsa strips are close over the sandwiched internal balsa parts and glued you can then contour sand the tunnels as shown.īe sure before you glue the wings and tails in place to shape them to an airfoil shape.Īfter this is done you can glue the wings and tunnels in place to the body tube. These are comprised of several balsa parts and line up and capture the wing as shown in the pictures. The first thing to do is build the wing tunnels. The Body Tubes are all pre-marked for fin and wing locations.īuild the two vertical fins from the supplied pre-cut balsa parts. You can pretty much build this plane in any sequence you want. We are looking to improve this but in the meantime all the BT’s are slightly oversized on all our kits so you can lightly flat sand them. The BT ends might be a bit rough from my cutter. ![]()
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