Another example of your workmanship, Allan. TERRIFIC job. Those olympic rings on the nose add a very fine touch.
Can you give us more details about the covering and finishing materials used? Weight of the plane?
Thanks and CONGRATS!
Finish--Polyspan on wings & tail, silkspan on the rest. Randolph clear dope tinted with HOK Kandy Koncentrates. I had yellow and red tints left over from two previous jobs. Mixed them together for the orange tint. Thought it would take equal parts of the 2 tints for the orange but it was more like 5~6 yellow to 1 part red. Silver lettering and canopy is Rand-O-Fil, underneath the orange tint it looks more like a gold. The Rand-O-Fil is marketed as a UV barrier, its clear dope with aluminum powder, but driers looking just like a silver paint.
Weight--49oz I was initially a little disappointed with that, was shooting for 44~45. But after 6 flights now I'm happy with it right where it is. Its solid in level flight, tracks good in the rounds, and still has a decent corner. So I'm thinking the extra five ounces that I would have liked to avoid, might actually give it some added stability when its bumpty out there.