Re: 6-2023 Building a replacement 6-3-2023 Steve Shumate Fokker Dr1 Tri plane Sport
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 8:20 pm
I have decided to remove the cowling and discard it. The lines just do not have the correct look at different angles. I looked through my wife's cookware for a pot or bowl with the nice rounded looking edge and front for the cowling. I found a plastic bowl. My wife said that was not going on to a model airplane. So off to Walmart and looking at soup bowls there was one close but had art molded in place. But I was looking at the wrong side of the glazed bowl. never mind the outside art, We want the correct shape inside the bowl. I found a large soup bowl with the smoothest inside and almost the 6.25 inches needed to fit the nose. Dirt cheap too.
So I got my epoxy and glass remnants together and prepared the inside of the bowl with a few coats of mold release wax.If you do not have that wax release I would use a good automotive paste wax in a few coats. Buffed out and ready for the epoxy and scrap pieces of light glass cloth I made a molded cowling and boy it came out very nice too. An important note that you should take in here. Read the note in picture number #02 i order to remove the new cowl from the soup bowl mold. Done. It is primed red and fitted to the plane but not screwed down yet. I am still fussing about a paint scheme that is slowing me down to the finished plane. I will get it done at some time though.
So I got my epoxy and glass remnants together and prepared the inside of the bowl with a few coats of mold release wax.If you do not have that wax release I would use a good automotive paste wax in a few coats. Buffed out and ready for the epoxy and scrap pieces of light glass cloth I made a molded cowling and boy it came out very nice too. An important note that you should take in here. Read the note in picture number #02 i order to remove the new cowl from the soup bowl mold. Done. It is primed red and fitted to the plane but not screwed down yet. I am still fussing about a paint scheme that is slowing me down to the finished plane. I will get it done at some time though.