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Take a look at the final product first.
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It's in the air! |
Landing on grass. |
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Step 1, wrapping everything up in plastic.
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Step 2, poster board, then chicken wire.
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Step 3, spray foam in place (seven cans).
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Step 4, shaping the foam. |
Step 5, applying plaster. Board underneath
is holding plaster in place until it sets. |
Step 6, shaping plaster. Everything looks
great! More photos to come. |
Step 7, Some Bondo work to pull it all
together. |
Step 7b, Profile view of the Bondo work.
More photos to come. |
Almost ready for fiberglass work.
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The Profile View. |
Waxed, Scribed, masked, and parting film
applied. |
Epoxy surface coat applied. |
Fiber glass layup. |
The lower mold removed from the "positive."
The glass is still a little soft so it looks a little spread out.
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The completed mold top and bottom with
reinforcing installed. |
Cowl has been pre-fitted to fuselage, now
getting ready to glass the mating flange on lower cowl |
Note flange |
Cowl in place, just add fasteners
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To the right, the #1 reason a 701 is ugly.
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Profile view of the cowl clecod in place
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The Front View. |
Click here to see the completed project.
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Another View |
And another. |