A Story of Two Halves....

After the unfortunate coming together with my new RCRCM Typhoon and the ground due to an elevator servo failure. The repairs have come along a good pace this weekend.
The fuselage had completely broken in two halves with just the control cables holding it together.
With Tim's help the Typhoon will fly again. Firstly using epoxy and some small pieces of fibreglass cloth to stabilize the fuselage and give it some strength ready for fibre glassing. Then using pre cut pieces of glass fibre cloth and mixed fire glass resin, glass around the repair using 4 layers of class cloth.

 Here you see the fibre glass repair in its raw form without any rubbing down or profiling. Then out came the dremmel and Tim sanded down the rough fibre glass repair to leave a neat and smooth glass repair.

With a little more work the repair was then ready for spraying. A quick trip to Halfords and trying to match the blue finish up to a car colour, I found an old Vauxhall car colour 'Pastel Blue' and some grey primer.

Then onto the 'pastel Blue' top coat. Because of the weather and freezing cold garage, Each coat was followed with a heat up using a hair dryer. Here's the result.

 

Now with all the masking tape taken off. The colour is a little off but near enough to make a good job of the repair.

 

So thanks to dad (Tim) we have a fuselage repaired and strengthened and given that I was ready to chuck it the fuselage in the bin and buy another one.