Separated the tail pieces... it bugged me a little bit that there was a little gap around the vertical brace from the laser kerf - so I added a little layer of thin plywood from the scrap of the throwing blade to tighten up the fit.
Separated and sanded the elevator and horizontal stabilizer.
Nice and tight fit on the vertical brace now - adding some covering to the stabilizer too...
I'm having good results on this one sealing the edge of the covering to the balsa, and then holding the excess covering with the tweezers while sliding the razor blade flat along the balsa surface - leaves very little extra covering to then roll over with the covering iron to seal up nicely.
Tools of covering for little planes - double sided razor blade, tweezers, scalpel blade, and covering iron with sock.
Cut out the covering where the stabilizers met so I could get a good balsa to balsa glue joint.
Then added the tension spring, control horn, and carbon tube
Put on the little extra brace above the carbon tube and now it's time to watch the fuselage build videos...
I like the look so far, but I don't think I want to go all black on the fuselage... not sure if I want to cover it or air brush over the fiberglass either... maybe white with some red candy stripes & black pinstripes... gotta think about this some more.