That's what I've been saying about the Dap filler.  It's O.K. for course, deep filling, but not good for finish filling.  I still MUCH prefer the expensive Hobby Magic filler.  You're not supposed to need much of it so it goes a long way.

Yeah I just had to put a skim coat over those spots.  Plane is gonna weigh a lot more than I thought based on how this stage is going. 

Ok this coming week I'm gonna take a break from the Solent in order to prepare for Kingston. I wanna build TWO Morphines in that time.  The first one will be my racer (to spec) and the other will be my 800 watts per pound (yup, you read that right. lol!) "sport" Morphine.

Obviously this one's wing will be strengthened (CF rod) and will serve as my back up racer (for when the inevitable happens) as I'll be able to interchange their power trains easily. 

It'll be good to take a break from the Solent while her paint cures.

Colin

Wanna build me one of those morphine "sport" planes, too? Sounds awesome, and you wont notice a third. 

Ok the Morphine's done ... back to the Solent tomorrow.

Colin

This was my distraction ... maybe now I can finally finish this plane?    This build has been so long that I put together two ARFs (http://temac.ca/smf/index.php/topic,4888.msg31305.html#msg31305 and http://temac.ca/smf/index.php/topic,4888.msg34077.html#msg34077) AND built this Morphine kit along the way!

Colin

Your Morphine looks great!  It'll be nice to have you out racing again on Sunday.  I hope you can make it.

Yup, Sunday will be the start of my racing season. 

Great looking racer! Hope we get a lot of heats in this weekend.o

My Morphine should be ready, too! 

Back at it ... center wing finally done with the sanding and filling cycles. Had to do over that crappy DAP lightweight filler that does NOT seem to fully cure no matter how long its left and does NOT sand well no matter what grit you use ... wet or dry. 

BTW, obviously all deadlines previously mentioned are out of the window due to the many distractions that I've had but it will get done THIS season, I promise!   

Colin

Well after much distraction and a much deserved family vacation, I'm back at it. We're about 80% there now. Just finished setting the correct angle of the tip floats (plans have it almost zero incidence, full scale about 25 degrees positive) so all that is left to do now is "finishing" ... but there's a bunch more filling and sanding (the whole wing) then covering, painting, wiring etc etc. 

Oh wait, I lie ... I still have to sheet the rudder and sheet the roofs for the flaps.  (and I'm sure a million other things that don't come to mind right now)

Colin

P.S. Did I mention this thing is BIG?   

Well, the stuff that's going on behind the scenes is nothing really "photo worthy" hence a general slow down of posts. Just a lot of the more finicky things ... however I did finally sheet the vstab and rudder and with the sheeting you can really see the shape of it now. I'm really pleased as to how that came out cause I went to great lengths to get its shape as scale as possible.  I just have to round off the tip a bit now and it'll be almost perfect! 

Colin

Keep at it you're nearly there. Looks great.


Jack.

Better. Now I can sleep tonight. 

Colin

P.S. BTW, the correction is on the right in the top pic!