Tuesday’s building session involved finishing up covering the turtle deck, top view in the image above, side view below. With the convex curves and having to extend back around the tail makes for one of the trickier pieces of covering I had to do.m Last session I had already cut out the piece, ironed it …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 40: Turtle Deck & Landing Gear Plate Covered Read More »
Today was a great building session and two Johns along with one other club member who stopped by for a visit today. Peter’s place was a beehive of activity! Through it all I chatted some, they conversed lots, and I kept working away to put in another 2 hrs on my plane. Today was about …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 39: Fuselage Bottom & Top Covering Read More »
On Saturday I got to work on my plane again and made some more progress on covering and installation of the fuel tank. One of the discussion Peter & I had in a previous session was what I’d like to do with the cockpit, use covering or paint it. I decided to go with painting …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 37: Covering, Fuel Tank and Rudder Hinged Read More »
Tuesday was an excellent covering session and nice to get in back to back days working on my plane. Covering is definitely a time consuming task and the tail with all its intricacies took a lot of concentration and patience. Throughout the process I learned how to do things better, namely so that I do …
Being Family Day in Ontario I got over for an afternoon building session with Peter. I started off where I left off, the rudder. I used the heat gun to shrink the covering over the ‘holes’ in the rudder and then using the markings on the fin figured out where the hinge marks were hiding …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 35: Tail Covering Started Read More »
Yesterday I worked on my plane for about 2 hours (as is about the typical session length). When I first arrived Peter filled me in on his 2hr morning session. He got the wholes for the wing screw down bolts made. He glued the two laser cut 1/16″ plywood wing hold down plates to the bottom …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 26: Wing Bolt Holes & Covering Wing Read More »
Yesterday was a bitter sweet two hour building session at Peters. It started with gathering the sheeting for the wing and determining which pieces for which section. I then measured where they have to go and determined I needed to cut them in 14.5″ sections to give a little overlap on each end for potential …
Yesterday we had a productive 2 hr building session. I love seeing my project slowly come together and take on more and more of a ‘total plane’ look/shape. The evening started with checking out the ‘rig’ Peter created for drilling the holes for the dowels into the dowel support blocks. Because every planes wing is …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 21: Dowel Holes, T1 Reinforced, Switch & Stabilizer Read More »
