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Philipp Gardemin:
@Alan: I would love to publish an article about that wonderful model in AUFWIND (German and English).

Please send me a email to editor@aufwind-magazine.net.


PHILIPP

Alan_Perse:
Almost there now. The wings are now covered :D  :D. It really is starting to look like a K8. I just have to do some more work on the airbreaks and they will be fully finished. I also have to do some more work on the fuselage and it will be ready for covering as well. Not looking forward to that. It looks like it could be complicated. Here are some photos,

 





Here is a question for Fred or anyone else who has experience with solartex. As I was covering the wings I noticed these dark marks appearing on the solartex (see photo below). I'm not quite sure where they came from. I did use Balsaloc on the wood before I covered the wings, (For anyone who does not know, Blasaloc is a pretreatment you can put onto wood before you cover it so as the covering film sticks to it better).
It does not really mater in the end as I am going to paint them gloss white. Its just for future reference. Anyone got any ideas.

 

DaveMc:
Hi Alan,

Same thing happened to me on a Flair Fokker DV11 I built a few years back. Putting a sock on the iron helped as I initially thought it was dirt rubbing off on the solarex from the face of the iron. Reducing the heat also helped. I think it had something to do with the glue bonding under too much heat. Burning basically as it only occurs at the point where the covering touches the wooden structure... you can see that in your pics.

If you are painting over it, it should not matter anywho.

Absolutely fantastic model you have there by the way. Well done.

Dave

lothar4862:
Hi Alan,

I cannot answer Your Question, but I can tell You, that she's a real masterpiece. Everything looks very clean and well done.

Regards

Lothar

Alan_Perse:
Thanks very much Lothar. Its my first scale model so it is not as clean and neat as I would like it to be. Definitely not as neat as your Horten XIV. The next time I make a model from a plan I'm going to try and get the parts laser cut.

Dave. I think you may be right about the iron been too hot. But I also think the balsaloc may have caused it as well. I did an experiment. I covered the elevator without using the balsaloc and there was hardly any dark marks at all.

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