I'll go back in a day or so and place it in the correct order.
The wing angle shown in the instructions is hard to achieve.
GOTCHA: When I set the glue tacked wings on a straight edge you can see the angle is flatter than the illustration.
I ended up sanding the root edge to allow a flatter placement but not as extreme an angle.
The twin rudder fins are flush with the end of the tube. Draw a pencil tic mark over the end of the tube so you can see the line when the root edge covers up the pencil line.
Here's the view from the rear.
The tail fins look larger than they really are.
I set my sanding block against the 45 degree angle cuts. From the side you can see how everything is in line, from the low rudder fin through the back edge of the small strake on top.
There is one obvious difference between the illustration and the actual model -- where the wings attach to the body tube. The illustration shows them attached at the midline, whereas on the actual model they attach below the midline. If you set the angle so that the wingtips and bottom of body tube to be even, the wings will end up at a shallower angle (and relative to the body tube, they wont project perpendicularly from the body tube). If the wings are attached so that they project perpendicularly from the body tube, the anhedral would likely be the same as in the illustration (but the wingtips would be blow the bottom of the body tube)
ReplyDeleteHi Naoto,
DeleteI followed the marks from the tube marking guide to glue on the wings. At this point I was frustrated and was throwing in the towel.