Alpha Jet by Peter Garsden

/ / Published in Model Build Pictures, Photographs

These photographs show the process of creating a lost foam fibreglass fuselage and blue foam veneered wings.

An article about the build appeared in an LMMGA Newsletter, which is reproduced in pdf form here

Side Fuselage Cut Out with Template
Jet Cover Template & Cut Out
Hot Wire Cutter
Top Jet Cover Template Pinned to Foam
Moulds Wrapped in Parcel Tape
Front of Fuselage ready for cloth
Jet Covers after Fibreglass & Epoxy awaiting foam removal.
Hot Wire Cut Wing Sections
Bubble in Glassfibre
Wing Seat Showing Hole ready for Acetone
Fuselage ready for Acetone
Wing Shape Templates for cutting initial shape
Canopy Extras
Head Only Pilots
Ply
Wings veneered and not
Wing Centre Section
Anhedral Tail
Fuselage in Jig
Shape for Fuselage
Proxxon
Ball Joint to Rudder
Jet Exhaust
Pilot in Situ

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