A quickly shot video of my first pulls from the molds. I've got the CG figured out now so I can add some real horsepower to the model and see how she preforms 
| Building a Hollow Molded Pylon Plane (3 min 32 sec) |
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Sitting on the parting board ready for the jig saw. -
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Parts in parting board ready for tooling coat. -
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Tooling coat. -
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OPPS! tooling coat go under my parting board forming a ridge almost a dime thick and about 1/8" - 1/4" long (towards the LE). I ended up popping the wing out and sanding down the edge then reinstalling the wing and pouring the other side. Had -
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Skins -
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Painted mold and skins -
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In the vacuum bag -
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suck baby suck
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Design... on paper. -
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Wing sections. Cut from Dow Square Edge foam. RG-14 airfoil -
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Wing #1. Will be used as plug for mold. -
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Fuse, wing and tail almost ready for paint. -
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Wing and tail sitting in splooge for saddles. -
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Painted. -
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Reflecting a Merry Christmas -
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Fuse.
