On April 19th I completed the ‘wood’ version of the floats (still needs to be fiber glassed, etc.) and worked on the nose of the fuselage. In order to do the floats I measured out a bunch of light balsa to glue to the top side of the float sides to make up the top […]
Building Seamaster Day 18: Float Tops & Nose Read More »
On April 18th I worked on the floats and got a hard piece of wood glued to the back of the floats which will be used for screwing to the bottom of the wing, holding the back in place. There will also be a screw going through the front of the float as well. As
Building Seamaster Day 17: Floats to Nose Read More »
On April 14th I did a fair bit of work on the wing and a little bit on the fuselage. On the wing the supports were glued into place. This is top and bottom for both wing tips and provides stability for the wing tip to prevent over flexing, etc. You can tell in looking
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On April 12th I worked on the wing and the fuselage. I glued the bottom mid-section of the fuselage in place which involved using glue along the edges to hold it to the fuselage as well as along the front edge to hold the bottom the flat surface it butts up against in the front.
Building Seamaster Day 15: Fuselage Bottom + Wing Tips Read More »
On April 7th I worked on the floats… sanding of them already took place and so I verified and then glued the sides to the support pieces. You can see the system rigged up below to keep pieces in place along with clamps on the glue joints while the glue dried. The other thing
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On March 24th there was some good and some bad. One of the bad’s can be seen above in that in shaping the nose it took on a ‘funky’ warping causing the one side to bow in. You’ll see this better in a front on shot later. Added some supports to the nose as well
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On March 21st I made some more progress on both the wing and the fuselage. On the fuselage I got the top of the fuselage glued in place. The wholes, that came pre-cut, are to trim weight from the overall aircraft. In the photo below you can see where I glued the sheeting for the
Building Seamaster Day 12: Fuse top & Wing Sheeting Read More »
On March 17th I got the main spar of one of the wing panels glued in place (seen below) and also got the sheeting glued to the bottom of the tail. Used hardwood strips to provide a surface to hold the sheeting in place with clamps along the bottom edges of the side while the
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