Noteworthy moments in my hobbies and tracking my R/C Plane builds (majority).
On January 13th the fiber-glassing process started with the wing tip floats. This is my first experience working with fiber-glass. Peter has a big sheet of the stuff. The first step was to cut out the pieces for covering the floats by creating the least amount of waste possible, it’s expensive stuff! The pieces need …
Building Seamaster Day 45: Fiber-glassing floats Read More »
On Dec. 18th I could really start to see things coming together as I worked on putting the bondages for all the control surfaces into place. The first step was to ensure the hinges fit into the slots off the main surfaces (wing for ailerons and fin & stabilizer for the rudder & elevator respectively). …
Building Seamater Day 44: Gluing Hinges / Control Surfaces Read More »
On Nov. 27th I started the process of covering the elevator and rudder for my Seamaster. This day consisted of covering the ends and trailing edges of the two control surfaces. This is done first in order to ensure the edges are properly covered and ensure there is no exposed balsa in the end. In …
Building Seamater Day 42 & 43: Covering Rudder & Elevator Read More »
On Nov. 26th I covered the fin of my aircraft. This entailed cutting to pieces with some excess for each side of the fin. I ensured a straight edge was used along the bottom and top. I ironed along the top edge first and then worked my way across the surface and folded the one …
On Nov 24th I finished covering the top of the stabilizer. Since I already had the center piece with the convex curve completed it was a matter of cutting two pieces of caution yellow covering (over-sized) for each part. The process was completed similarly to the bottom in that I started by ironing down the …
On Nov. 20th I focused on covering the bottom of the stabilizer. You can see the stop point for the day with the bottom of the stabilizer covered in the featured image above. Above you can see the top of the stabilizer (bottom of the covering) I ironed in place. Below you can see the …
On Nov 17th I finished covering the wing and started covering the tail of the aircraft. You can see in the image below that I covered the seems (joints) along where the triangle stock is in place helping support the stab to the fin. I do the seems first to help keep fuel, etc. from …
Building Seamaster Day 37 & 38: Tail Covering Started Read More »
On Nov. 6th I finished covering the bottom of the wing by cutting two pieces to fit down the center, seen below. The first wraps around the leading edge of the wing and goes down to the edge protrusion and the other goes from bottom of the protrusion to the trailing edge where it was …
Building Seamaster Day 35 & 36: Bottom Completed, Started Cover Wing Top Read More »
