Well... what was done 2 days ago has now hardened sufficiently (i was a little worried it might not stiffen up, as this if the first time i have used this particular resin), plus i built a little electric ducted fan jet with thrust vectoring to goof off with. Over-all the glassed conformed to the plug exceptionally well. their are a few areas (mostly around the fuse to canopy transition lines) that didn't stick entirely. But I decided to do a wee bit more fiber-glassing today. I've got the nose cone carbon fiber "ring" in place (this is to stiffen up the separation line for when the nose cone is cut free), got the windscreen and upper half of the nose section glassed. 1 side of both rudders is glassed, one side of both stabs, and 1 side of the ventral fin. I've got just a wee bit more final sanding to do on the vertical tails, then i'll glass those and start on the wings and tail. I should be able to flip the fuselage over tomorrow afternoon and start glassing the bottom side of it. I've got to adjust the Canopy plug, as the gap i had when it was all wood was to tight, so now i sits about 1/32" higher than the fuselage. No biggy, i kind of expected this, so i didn't glass the bottom and ends of the canopy just so i could fine tune the gaps to get a perfect fit with as little filler as necessary.
And of course, pictures
