Sunday, June 8, 2014

Mega Mosquito Build Part 4, Fin Laminations

Here's how I glued up the middle piece.
Use enough to get a good bond but not so much that the outer layers will be slipping around when pressed together.

Go light on the glue near the root edge tab. Any extra excess dried glue will hamper the fit against the body tube.


After the fins sat under some heavy books overnight,
Here's how the slightly stepped layers fit against the body tube.

The little extra time spent gluing them together paid off with a better fit.



The fin on the right had all sides sanded flush.
(Don't sand the root edge!)

On the right you can just see the step with the center layer barely sticking up beyond the outer layers.


The leading and trailing edges were rounded.
I left the rounded outside edges square.











From the tabbed root edge side you can see the slight curve of the root edge.

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