Not over yet. The canopy is still draining the life out of me at this point.
After sanding the fillet as smooth as I could with progressively finer swatches of sandpaper, I couldn’t really tell except by feel whether or not something was smooth, so I threw a layer of gloss white on it. The point of this is to see how warped the reflections are, and to see if there are any egregious spots that need attention. And yes, there are.
The fillet looks OK. After this was a lot of cleanup and cosmetic filling. Remember, kids, flox is structural, micro is not. With the layers built up as well as they were going to be, I switched over to microballoons and resin for final shaping. Microballoons are microscopic spheres of glass. You mix that with resin, adding micro until its the consistency of peanut butter. You want the little peaks to stand up on their own, because if they don’t, the mixture runs when it’s on a vertical surface and that’s bad. I did about 5 or 6 iterations of micro and sanding before I remembered I wanted to fly rather than build.
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