Eagles Talon X-13 Verijet!

[Andrew Gorman]

Notched the finlets, sanded the leading and trailing edges and rethought the landing gear. Do I really want it to look like a Cessna Skyhawk?  Thinking about something more suitable for a test mule. And made cut marks on the flimsy and blobby vacuformed canopy. Not psychologically prepared to cut it out yet.

[frank2056]

Great job on the vac so far. I have a few in the stash, many unfinished.

[Andrew Gorman]

Thank you! Polishing the canopy with toothpaste has helped clarify it a bit, and the obligatory dip in Future should help more.  But there are some lumps and pits that will just have to stay.  The molded in framing is more complicated than the real world version.  If there was more time and I was more ambitious I could use it as a master to cast a resin copy and break out the Mattel vacuformer.... I can't get the spatted Cessna Skyhawk look out of my mind, so I'm adding the hook and posing it in flight on a stand. At some point in the future it will be on a truck anyway.

[Andrew Gorman]

Work week evening, so only attached the big vertical stabilizer, reinforced with a bit music wire, opened up the cockpit, rough cut out of the vacuform canopy- it's flimsy!, and added some support to the cut out opaque canopy section so it can act as a guide/buck for trimming the canopy to fit.  Sewing scissors or very gentle sanding seem to be the tools that will work best. Any other suggestions? As the end approaches primer coat will be the first coat of final color. Not finished, but getting there!

[Rick Lowe]

Repeated gentle passes with a scalpel works best for me. Then sanding. 

[NARSES2]

Repeated gentle passes with a scalpel works best for me. Then sanding. 

I find very sharp sewing scissors work best for me, I have more control over them (the dreaded "shakes") and then very fine sanding sponges.

[Andrew Gorman]

Thank you !