Starlight Jayhawk Build Part 19 Canard Placement

This shows the canards in place.

The canard on the left is set in it's hole, no glue yet.

Here's the dry-fit Jayhawk up 'till now.

I'm still deciding whether or not to paint the nose cone before glueing them in. If I glued them on after painting the black there won't be any tricky masking.

Starlight Jayhawk Build Part 18 Canard Placement

Using the same small pin vise, a hole was drilled into the root edge of both canards. While drilling, keep turning and checking the canard to make sure the drill is going in straight.

Two pins ends were cut off to about 3/8" long, a little shorter than the picture shows.

Glue the cut pins into the holes you already glued with CA.

Keep the glue in the holes and not on the root edge. You want to keep that edge smooth so you'll get a good fit against the nose cone curve.

Starlight Jayhawk Build Part 17 Canard Placement

To get a "near" correct position of the canards, I looked at the old Centuri Magnum instruction drawings.
I kept messing with the enlargement until I got it to match the length of the model. Notice the diameter of the Jayhawk screen drawing is wider than the model.

This gave me a good idea of where to mount the canards on the nose cone instead of farther down on the body tube.

The root edge of the canards had to have a slight sanding to match curve of the nose cone.

I decided to use a cut needle set into the root edge of the canards for some support.

A hole was drilled through the wall of the nose cone to accept the needle