Once again, I depleted my lumber stash and had to wait for SIG to get my stock replenished. I made an abortive attempt at the speed ring a couple weeks ago, but just didn’t have the right balsa on hand.

Three layers of 4lb 1/32” stuff, edge glued into 7” strips and laminated dry with PVA over an old Pactra dope bottle which was exactly the right size for the ID.

After an overnight dry, it was trimmed and shaped over the same bottle as a support jig. Trust me, as hamhanded as I am, this works well!

Craig, another clean and skill stretching build. Nice job.

Bob

Fuselage pretty well framed up. It required a lot of tortured balsa and use of the mkI hand clamp, so it was a little slow to build, but it stayed pretty true. With the fuse & wing built as a unit, it needs "tissue attachment points" (really, isn't the whole model a collection of tissue attachment points?) at the wing root area- the ones at the fuselage bottom were cut by Meatbomber and fit perfectly- the ones on the wing were cut to fit.

But I was stupid and didn’t clean up the hub part before glueing the outer parts on, just a heads up

I started mine too with a slightly less demanding part
Got the wheels made, and quite happy the way they turn out

Well, it's a wing. I's an interesting thing- it's kind of like it turns upside-down mid-chord. Covering the top side will be like doing the bottom of an under cambered asymmetrical 'foil. The last picture is of the bottom side.

Getting close on the wing. Doing some pre/shaping on the wingtips to put the reflex in so as not to overshoot and sand improper contours into the tip ribs.