Junior 60 build

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Re: Junior 60 build

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Ah thanks Stew

It’s getting there …. This eve despite feeling rotten with bad cold ( nope not Covid thankfully)
I’ve been spraying in the living room :o
Despite using posh masking tape I’m still getting bleeding on the edges. So the next bit ( horizontal stab) I have been over the tape edges with the covering iron

Let’s see what happens when I take the tape off
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Just a quick...bleedings are a pain but if you spray just a light coat of clear dope over the edges of the tape normally it helps.
You are doing a nice and impressive jobb
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That’s very interesting Tobe thank you. :)
I did have a similar thought and put a very light mist coat on first so it would dry - then slowly built the coats up so I didn’t have a ‘flooded’ wet edge against the tape. That along with ironing the tape has definitely helped.
I don’t have any dope - but I think my daughter has a can of hair spray in the cupboard - that might help ?
Will test the idea out before I do it on the Junior
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Hair spray is normally cellulosa based=dope!
My late dad tought me a dirty trick. Paint in the shower cabin after spraying all surfaces with water, I never heard my mother complain about it.
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Ha ha that’s put a smile on my face Tobe :lol:
It is the sort of thing I’d do but likely get found out :shock:
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Made some little pegs from carbon fibre rod - checked alignment and araldite glued together. Ably assited by Star Wars and The Ark of the covenant !
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Well I did say I felt knackered the other evening. Turns out I’m positive Covid :o However making a speedy recovery no doubt due to being double whammied and bazookered.

So a ten day isolation to carry on with model aeroplanes / Can’t be bad methinks :lol:

Just made the tail band clip out of an old picture frame wall hook
Made holes through the covering for the band dowels with a hot wire
Made a front peg to locate the tailplane so steaming ahead
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Uh oh …. Despite carefully masking off some paint has crept in where it shouldn’t have .
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Using a bit of E15 petrol to get the overspray off which is working mostly.

Interestingly only this eve I have realised I cannot smell. The petrol I’m using I just can’t smell at all! :?
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Well tonight’s episode is complete. Motors in ( probably too powerful but it’s what I had ) band pegs are in . Tailplane is mounted . Horns yet to do ,windows etc
Looks like it’s heading for a Boxing Day maiden :geek:
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