Me tooooo.
eddie
Me tooooo.
eddie
Eddie Forward
Flying
SS7, 912iS, Garmin G3X
Nice! That's a milestone in the build. Can't wait to see it mounted.
Clark
I have most of the fabric on the fuselage. I need to finish up the vertical stab, then install my static ports, and then I'll do the top piece. I really ran to the ragged edge of having enough fabric.
Attaching and shrinking is going pretty nominally. There is a lot of geometry to work around on the side pieces, but it wasn't difficult to figure out. As I believe others have done, I completely covered the triangle window frame. This is purely and aesthetic decision.
On the second side, I glued the bottom first, and as I was gluing the top, I was running into a situation where keeping the glued edge nice and neat resulted in too much slack in the fabric. I did a lot of heat forming and stretching, and I intentionally left some wrinkles in the glued seam to take up some fabric slack, and once I got it attached, it looked kind of a mess. I was half expecting to tear it off and start over. However, with patient use of the iron, everything turned out nice and smooth.
--Brian
Flying - S7SS
Great progress Brian. Never thought of covering the triangular window so I might consider doing the same thing. And I’ve also found that the patient use of the iron on wrinkles can change tears to cheers.
David
SS7 Builder
I covered right over the top of the window, then cut a triangle out with slits at the corners to make tabs that I folded and glued to the back of the angle. The effect is the forward legs of the triangle end up wrapped in fabric.
--Brian
Flying - S7SS
Very neat way of doing it.
David
SS7 Builder
Oh my gosh so much taping. Coming along nicely though.
--Brian
Flying - S7SS
Looks great Brian! Really coming along...
Clark
Lookin Good Brian. I like that shot down the fuse.
Eddie Forward
Flying
SS7, 912iS, Garmin G3X
Yeah, again, first flight before Christmas .... no pressure Brian ... !!
David
SS7 Builder