I've had this rare and no longer made kit for a while now, and seeing Jon Eastman's Tucano, that Rob gave him, we decided that we got to get these in the air this year. Preferably electric, and enough power to have decent aerobics as well as for those full bore speed passes. When will they make their appearance? Keep your eyes peeled!!!!

Fuse formers getting hysoled in place up in the nose. Stabs and rudder are sheeted and need to be shaped. I'll probably go with separate servos for each elevator and a pull pull set-up on the rudder.

mmm...electric..

looking right some good there Danny......2 in the air, formation flying, ooh ooh ooh..

Thanks gentlemen.
The elevators are capped and sanded to shape. The trailing edge balsa has been added to the stabs and they are now joined by a common plank. I used gorilla glue on the center glue join. Once cured, I'll glass the center section for strength.

I hope to have the whole assembly glassed and glued into the fuse by the weekend. Soup not included. 

Chunky clamps, they are awesome! When you are done with them, you can eat them..

Here is the stab almost done. I still need to insert the dowels for the elevator for the linkage support.

Dan

The lower front cowl has some nice detail in it, and on the full size the have these NACA inlet ducts. The kit has the outlines in the glass work, but are not functional. They will be on mine.

Using new blades in my artist knife,I scored the outline and continued doing this until the cuts were through the glass. Edges are sanded clean and I put two strips of 1/64 ply in the cuts and glued the outer skin joint. Once this was cured, I pushed section inside to create the NACA duct and glued this to the ply strip. Once cured, the outside ply was sanded flush to the glass. Now to repeat this for the one on the other side.

Dan

Jack, yep, going to try to have it as close to the one in my first post. I've always like the toucan painted on the fin and rudder.

I finished sanding the hinge line and cut the slots for the hinges. No problem getting decent throws out of the elevators. Mixed up some West Systems epoxy and did the first side of the glassing. It's been a while since the last time I did this, so I hope it turns out. I should be an expert by the time I get to the wings

I should be able to clean up the edges and do the other side tomorrow.

Dan.

Thanks Al, but painting it is going to be fun.

This morning I cleaned up the extra cloth and sanded the edges and was able to glass the other sides. I'm off to BC for a couple weeks, so these will have cured nicely. All I'll have to do then is to glass the TE and the hinge line of the parts to have full glass coverage. Then everything gets a sanding before I put on a thinned second coat.

I did a final adjustment and sanded the rudder to shape. It will be glassed after I return home. Then it's time to get the wing done.

Dan

Black and yellow.