Empennage - Fiberglass
11/14/03-11/22/03 - I have been working like crazy to finish up the empennage so I can start on the wings, which arrived last Monday. I had a little work to do on the elevator fiberglass tips, and I wanted to bag all of the empennage pieces and put them outside on my storage platform.
Also, I just had to try once more to paint the elevator and HS fiberglass tips before I put everything away. Two parts came out great, one needs more paint, and my experiment on the already-painted part was a failure. I tried to use less paint to keep the paint from running, and that worked, but one part is under painted. I tried to use a light fog coat on the already painted tip, and what I ended up with was a part that has a light fog on it (it's rough). You need enough paint to get the paint to flow, but not too much, or it will run. This is very tricky, and will take some more practice, but when it works, the paint is very nice.
The screw-up below is the last work that I will do on the empennage for awhile.