speedbirdted
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Fuselage covered. Now I just need to do the wing and tail pattern and the covering will be over with.
I ended up making the scallop pattern differently than I had planned out in the concept drawing above. I did a trial fit of them with the longer and thinner pattern and didn't like it as much as I thought I would, so I made them much shorter and blunter and also increased the thickness of the stripe quite a bit too.
I feared the covering would not stick to the firewall because I coated it in resin, but it does just fine. This is tempting me to try and cover the cowling with the left over covering which would eliminate the potential color matching problems. I can't do this with the gear though because it has metal components, and if I need to paint it I might as well also do it to the cowl...
Speaking of fiberglass stuff: the wheel pants, at least the current design, aren't gonna work. I'm not sure if I measured the width of my wheels wrong or underestimated the width of the glass cloth layup, but the end result is the same. They don't fit! looks like I need to design some new ones. Good thing I only made one of the current design...
I ended up making the scallop pattern differently than I had planned out in the concept drawing above. I did a trial fit of them with the longer and thinner pattern and didn't like it as much as I thought I would, so I made them much shorter and blunter and also increased the thickness of the stripe quite a bit too.
I feared the covering would not stick to the firewall because I coated it in resin, but it does just fine. This is tempting me to try and cover the cowling with the left over covering which would eliminate the potential color matching problems. I can't do this with the gear though because it has metal components, and if I need to paint it I might as well also do it to the cowl...
Speaking of fiberglass stuff: the wheel pants, at least the current design, aren't gonna work. I'm not sure if I measured the width of my wheels wrong or underestimated the width of the glass cloth layup, but the end result is the same. They don't fit! looks like I need to design some new ones. Good thing I only made one of the current design...