Thanks so much, folks!
Terri: I'll add a link to a video showing how I cover with tissue, but I use a cheap glue stick rather than dope of my youth. This stuff works great and is very forgiving.
In the mean time, I got the wings all ready for covering by adding little balsa gussets as tissue anchors, made the pockets for the strut locations, and even added a tissue tube soaked in water and wood glue formed around the trailing edge of the upper wing center cut out. That will be a dicey place to cover, so I hope that works and is hidden under the lozenge!
I also printed some lozenge onto tissue (using an old decal set as a guide...enlarging it and printing directly onto white tissue). Seems to look ok. The smear on the top side was a printer hiccup but since my tissue is kind of dear...I'm using it anyway. A little weathering!
One cool thing is that the top pattern was spliced together just like the original since I didn't have a clean single piece to put over the whole top. Looks cool!
I plan on finishing this one tomorrow and then doing the top wing as well. Then I'll cover the tails and all that will be needed for major building will the the fuse!
Watch this space for a link on how the tissue process goes (for those unfamiliar or interested) and the finished tails too!
Going quite well, I must say.
Cheers,
Dan
