Hawker assembly

Just a quick update on the hawker, this is what it looks like after assembly. Still need to apply strips of tissue along the seems, and seal the pores of the tissue. After that, adding the rubber band and nose cowl will finish the build.

Tissue covering the pink Hawker

I started building the pink Hawker Hurricane, which is a Guillows 506 kit, a couple of years ago. However, I never got around to finishing it. Tonight I got a spur of motivation, and pulled out the tissue paper and white glue.

The process is quite straight forward, the trick is to not apply glue to too big of a portion at the time.

After covering, the tissue has to be shrunk. This is done by applying water, which seems brutal. The end result should be pretty decent, although I did notice some creases that most likely will not stretch out completely. Regardless, it is a pink plane built mainly as a test for the RC conversion spitfire, so I do not care all that much.