Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Quest Aerospace One Part 11 Masking for Glue Joints

The wing was dry fitted down the pencil line to mark for masking tape to go on the body tube. In the picture the wing was slid down from the end tic mark to show the tape pencil marks.
The body tube tape will be a little inside the areas that will be seen when the model is painted and glued together.
The inset shows the tape end forward of the wing and end of the spine.


This is the body tube mask for the rudders.
The rudders don't glue on their root edges. Instead the are glued to the body tube on their inside flat surfaces near the normal root edge.
More on this later.
The center of the wing was masked so no paint would get into the wood surface. The tape is down and to the sides of the spine.

The inset picture shows the side mask at the base of the rudder.
(On the tape is some CWF. Out of habit, I left the root edge without filler. I had to go back and add some CWF to fill the end grain. On this rocket, the root edge is exposed on the underside of the model.)

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