Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Carded Downscale Black Brant VB - Part 9, Cleaning Up Fin Edges

Look to the left of the picture.
This is the back side of the fin, opposite the ROOT EDGE cut side.
You can see how the edges are raised up after cutting.

Roll the edges down with the back side of a pen barrel.
Sand the edges if needed. Don't get the sandpaper on the red inked surfaces, it can take the ink right off.

To prevent de-lamination, run a small bead of white glue over the cut edges of the fins.
Use white glue. White glue dries clear, yellow wood glue dries yellow.
Go over the edges with a finger smoothing out the bead and removing excess glue.

After the glue dries lightly sand just the glue bead with 400 grit.
While applying a bead of white glue won't give a full rounded edge it will smooth things out a bit.



Study the FIN PLACEMENT guide before gluing on the fins.
The two red fins go nearest to the white bands printed on the body skin.

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