I HATE SANDING

I've been priming sanding and repairing for two weeks. My arms are sore and my finger tips are sore. And I still haven't decided on a trim yet. But we're getting close.

Nice looking plane! What is it?

I hope that the lower picture is taken from a peculiar perspective, as it appears from that picture that the elevator and flap hinge lines are not parallel.

LAST EDITED ON Apr-06-04 AT 11:57 PM (CDT)
 
Hi Sourdough,
I received a Cardinal Profile kit in a trade with a RC guy. The only thing complete was the fuse and the plans. So I redesigned the whole thing modifying the original Cardinal fuse using the same dimensions, built a Tom Morris millennium wing using the Cardinal airfoil. And redesigned the tail feathers. So here's hopeing it will still fly ok? So I guess you could say it's a kit bashed Cardinal. What your looking at is primer. Still haven't decided on a paint scheme yet?

I think the sanding isn't the real hard part. Coming up with a good looking paint scheme that hasn't been done 1,000 times THAT'S the hard part.

What landing gear are you using, the wire from the kit or aluminum/ carbon profile gear?

How are you going to paint the area your jig covers on the motor mounts?

Sanding is a necessary evil.

Your going to love the way Cardinal flys.

>I hope that the lower picture is taken from a peculiar
>perspective, as it appears from that picture that the
>elevator and flap hinge lines are not parallel.

Looking to hear on this as well....

Weird angle?

(Based on the skill shown, I assume that it's an optical illusion)

>
>>I hope that the lower picture is taken from a peculiar
>>perspective, as it appears from that picture that the
>>elevator and flap hinge lines are not parallel.
>
>Looking to hear on this as well....
>
>Weird angle?
>
>(Based on the skill shown, I assume that it's an optical
>illusion)

I did a quick measurement with a piece of paper from the horz stab to the TE tip and it checks the same on both sides. Looks like it is an image perspective with the way the plane is located on the stand verses the straight lines on the door behind. Course I could be totally wrong.

LAST EDITED ON Apr-09-04 AT 00:18 AM (CDT)
 
Yeah, It's just a strange perspective or maybe a cheap camera. Anyway it measures the same both sides as I used a fixture to align things when my alignment marks didn't go as well as I had planned.

The landing gear is home made out of aluminum and mounts to the bottom of the fuse. I installed a hardwood block with Tee Nuts between the ply doublers for the mount.

The engine area has been epoxy coated. After the plane is finished I will mask off around the engine mount and paint the appropriate color.

It's an optical illusion. Walt Musciano had a Bellanca XRE-1 Scale/Stunt design that was published in MAN in the late '50s. The wing is straight, yet in one rear quarter photo it looks like it has so much anhedral that Walt Schroder (editor in those days) wrote a caption for the photo that added a line about readers laying a straightedge along the wing TE because it looked bent but really wasn't!

Jake

I was sanding on mine the other night, and noticed blood on the sandpaper. Decided that was enough for one night!

Man that must be painful. I remember as a teenager I had a job sanding cars for a bodyshop after school and after all day with my hands in water and rubbing on the sandpaper....OW!!