Ironing foam has made foam aircraft attractive.
Let me explain. I was prejudiced, yup, I thought, foam board? are you kidding me? But hey, it is cheap and knowing I would crash I figured why not.
I used to build peanut scale rubber powered airplanes. They looked better than they flew sometimes, serious attention to detail. I didn't think I would come close to that with foam board. I was wrong.
Just smoothing up a transition on the wing tip made me happy. Before:
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And then after, not perfect but little things like this make me feel better about a build.
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And the elevator I took some time with, all edges are done on both sides, to varying amounts The round edges of the elevator I just rolled in a little bit. It is surprising how much this stiffen the part.
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The weird angle was to get shadows so it showed up better. Notice I left the part that meets the fuselage full height. I haven't decide if I want to blend the notch (red arrow) I am afraid I will mess it up because the iron is so big. I'm looking foe a small iron now. The orange arrow is the leading edge, more slope on the top, less on the bottom. I practiced rolling the edge round but want to make a tool to assist in forming it.