Yesterday was another great building session. We started the day by continuing work on the fuselage. Peter showed me where he did some sanding on the fuse bottom to give a smooth finish from where we curved and glued it into place the day before. Building resumed with using balsa triangle stock for reinforcements for …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 9: Top Formers & Wing Beginnings Read More »
Today’s building session was all about the bottom and a little time to sand the fibreglass wrap over the metal wire and wood for the one side where the elevator connected. Once fibreglass was sanded down I turned my attention to the fuselage. We started work on the table by looking at the landing gear plate, …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 8: Fuse Top and Bottom Front Read More »
Todays session was a different one. Since the next couple steps were straight forward Peter placed the first layer of fibreglass over the wire/elevators. He also glued the fuselage bottom, which I’d already sanded, to the fuselage and clamped it since it was straight forward and keeps us moving forward. You can see the outcomes …
Today was another great building session and things are really starting to come together. Dare I say it, its the first day it’s really starting to look like a plane! Taking the weights and supports off from last building session we see that the formers are now attached to the one side. Worked on the …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 6: Connect Elevators & Fuselage Side Read More »
Today I started working with working on connecting the two elevators with with wire. This involved first marking the centre of the edge and then using the plans to line up where the wire needed to be inserted and mark it. Then drilled a whole 1/8th in diameter an inch into the elevator. Then grooved …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 5: Elevators and Fuselage Formers Read More »
Today was another great day of building. I lucked out today with some extra assistance to keep things moving along. John cut the find down to size and sanded the edges for me. Even sanded the sheeting. Apparently this is one of the reasons why we don’t use the 1/16th that comes with as wouldn’t …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 4: A little bit of everything Read More »
This morning I was up early, odd for a weekend, and off to Peters for what turned out to be a 2.5hr building session which flew by! No pun intended, lol. Forgot to take a picture of this step but I glued the sheeting to the fin I built and prepped last day and basically looks …
Today I got over for another great building session with Peter. Peter kindly had the sheeting for the (tail) stabilizer of my plane glued together. We marked out one side of the sheeting tracing the framework with a pencil to know where the stabilizer framework had to go on the sheeting and then flipped over the framework. …
