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Miss Micki and the Senior Sassy, an all-wooden predecessor to the Sequel -
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Modified Clark YH airfoiled cores, hot wired from pink house insulation foam. -
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Papered and joined wing, ready for finishing. Cool Whip container holds the thinned Titebond II used to glue on the paper. -
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Marble lifters, wooden jig outers, and aluminum jig center are all plastic sandwich wrapped so glue doesn't stick as it dries -
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Just like building a balsa fuse, strips and all, but with foam instead of balsa. 'Monoliths' in the background are marble threshold scraps, used here to hold elevators in place whilst bass joiner dries. -
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Sides joined and top & bottom sheeted with more 1/4" pink foam -
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Lite ply servo tray and main LG mounts. There's almost no balsa in the model -- which really helps my allergies! -
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Thinned Titebond doesn't stick to the plastic clothespins. The thinned glue does drip and run, though, so floor protection is needed during drying.
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First step in wing construction is to join the carbon fibre spars with 1/16" birch ply. -
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'Normal' KFM2 is on left, 'fastback' version on right -
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Both wings were sanded to shape first, then joined over the spars on this simple jig. -
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Main ply bits and tail feathers. Note: rear peg on fin was removed before installation. -
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1/8" HIF bulkhead reinforcements glued on. -
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Bulkheads have been glued in, let dry, then the fuse sides are joined at the wing LE and TE. -
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Fuse (inverted) is in simple jig, sides joined at firewall. The fuse is then sheeted on the bottom from the wing TE forwards, plus the LG plate is glued on. -
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Now right-side-up, the turtledeck gets sheeted with 1/8" HIF.