When i did my small one it was easy to do retracts. Tkake a look at my thread ,might help give you ideas.
I have a dynamax fan so if we do this i could work that version.
Looking forward to see what you come up with Bob.

Rodger,

What would be the possibility of laying up a belly pan at St George this week? This is the only piece Bob is missing to build his. It would need about a 26" x 26" piece of cloth.

Pat

Could you measure with calipers how thick the fuse is at the front of the hatch on the fuse bob has. 26"×26" is pretty big . Got to see if i have enough cloth on hand of the right thickness.
Do you have a plug to vacuum form canopies with?

I have some pulled canopies that I'll bring with me, but I don't think we have the plug for it. I'll ask Bob to measure thickness of the fuse. I have some cloth that I will bring just in case it will work.

Pat

We could use one of the canopies to make a plug.

I will get the single piece canopy back from Bob today.

Pat

what a cool project! would love a draken!

Brent, we'll talk this week.

I just bought a Hasegawa 1/48 kit from Amazon to help with some scale details.

Pat

Here's something useful or you guys. Swedish air force decals: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/scale-na...et-sweden.html



They have other air force decals as well. I ordered a bunch of different ones and received them yesterday. The swedish roundels are 73 mm and 88 mm in diameter

Thanks!
Bob

So while in St George, Bob needed a belly pan so i laid one up this morning. In cure as i type.

Rodger, you are the man. So glad to see your hand in this. :-)

Paul

Awesome! Thanks, looking forward to some professional layups!
Bob

2 layers of the 7781? total of 20 oz?.....

Bob's fuse is .030 thick....so i was trying to match thickness. Thats the only cloth i had on hand,before we left. I weighed a 36" by 38" piece and it weighed 9.7 oz.
I wont use this cloth for the fuse layup's it is way too tightly woven and heavy.