Well, do to life’s circumstances I have gotten very far behind on my blog posts for this project. I’ve gotten married, bought a house, done a lot of painting and packing, moved into said house and have done a lot of unpacking and organising. This meant that over the course of the Winter and Spring …
Building Seamaster Day 10: Fuse Nose + Wing Panel Read More »
On March 6th not a whole lot of progress was made and some backtracking and discussion occurred. Discovered that the fuselage had warped. Looking down the fuse you could see that at the tail it curved inwards instead of ‘straight’ back and at the nose it was not curving properly either. This lead to much …
Building Seamaster Day 9: Fuselage Woes + L Wing Read More »
Made it to Peters March 5th to work on the fuselage a bit and really get the R wing panel moving along. You can see the image above that I sanded, using an electric sander, off the overhang of the fuselage bottom I previously installed to ensure a smooth finish with the fuselage sides. Next …
Building Seamaster Day 8: Fuse Bottom Edge & Wing Panel Read More »
On Feb. 27th worked on the fuselage and started the wing! It was at this point I really felt like progress was heating up 🙂 One of the tasks for the evening, now that the front of the aircraft is shaped and dried was to install the front formers (F3 to F1, that’s the order …
Building Seamaster Day 6: Front Formers + Wings Beginning Read More »
Last Tuesday I got to work on my plane again and been so busy since I’m only now getting around to blogging about it. The first thing we did was install the wire for the tail wheel. This involved first bending the tip of the wire into a 90 degree angle and ‘sanding’ the wire …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 33: Tail Wheel & Invasion Stripes Read More »
Saturday I got over to Peter’s for another building session. We started by going over what Peter had done. In order to not ‘waste’ my time on some of the easy but tedious stuff Peter will do some of it for me when he has a chance so that those things don’t hold us up …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 32: Hinged Ailerons + Tail Touch Ups Read More »
Tuesday I was able to get in some more covering and visiting. I started by covering the ailerons, which as you can see from the pic above I did in green. Kevin stopped by for a visit to see how things were going and a bit of a chat. It is nice to see guys …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 31: Ailerons & Servo Hatches Covered Read More »
Saturday was another great building session. John stopped by for a visit to check out how things were coming along and contrary to the ‘hack’ job he voices I believe he thinks I’m doing a pretty decent job :). Thanks to Peter for trimming off the excess of the top left covering I didn’t have …
Building 4 Star 60 Day 30: Left/Center Top Wing Covered + Ailerons Read More »
