Covering the Fuselage

We had to cover the fuselage in preparation for spraying it with poly-brush. Just like prepping trim in a house every bit of metal that was showing had to be covered with tape or paper to prevent over spray. If some poly-brush gets on the metal that is already painted it may allow the color to bleed into the fabric and also with poly-brush on the metal it wouldn’t cover well. A few coats of clear poly-brush and we will be ready to start with silver. I hope that everyone did a good job with those irons!

Cutting out Gromets

Here we are cutting out some fabric to be put on the back part of the fuselage. The control cables for the rudder and elevator pass through the fabric and we are putting these on to strengthen the fabric more so it will not rip. As you can see we have a special kind of scissors we use for this called a pinking shears. This allows us to get a good pinked (jagged) edge. The most difficult part of this job was making sure we glued the patches on in the right spot. The cables are not in at this point so we are going off the old pieces of fabric. Well see how close we were when everything is rigged!