Category: Rudder
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05: Rudder Assembly
With priming complete, and the Vertical Stab finished, it became time to knock out the Rudder. The trailing edge of the rudder has a special wedge that gets secured in and works to promote a nice straight trailing edge. This piece was countersunk in a previous blog. It is now time to start finalizing the…
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03: First Priming Session
I had a lot of anxiety going in to this.. I hadn’t shot primer in a long time and for some reason I really felt like I was going to mess this up and be forever ruined. Turns out, everything was fine. I did a final wipe with Acetone all the parts I was going…
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02: Starting the Rudder
With the vertical stab ready for primer, I don’t want to do a whole bunch of different priming sessions, I want to try to group some together, so I’ve put the Vertical Stab bits aside and started working on the Rudder. I started by gathering all the parts, cutting and shaping any necessary parts and…