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A built Vario MD 900 kit (by Vario)
The real thing in UK Air Support Colours
October 16, 2009
Well, this morning dawned with a clear blue sky, light
winds, and in fact a really gorgeous autumnal day in Blackpool.
So I took an hour for myself and shot off to my favourite
flying field with my SeaWolf (Belt CP mechanics) and my CopterX 450
SE V2 to have a little fun and to remind myself that I can still fly
an RC helicopter.
No accidents or problems, so a really nice hour spent
flying my own helicopters before returning to the heat of the
workshop. (It's hot in there because I have the heating going flat
out to let the acrylic paint dry properly)
I wanted to get the main fuselage section (lower section)
with a really good base coat of colour today, which I managed, and
while that has been left drying, I ploughed on with cockpit detail a
little more, as well as doing the final pre top coat rubbing down on
the two port side doors ready for their final coats.
I still have to drill the holes for the handles, and the
holes for the front door hinges, but they will of course be done
before the final top coat of colour and the final lacquer coat is
applied.
So really there are not too many pictures to show for
today's work, apart from these showing the current status of the
cockpit. The instruments on there are not the final Vario
ones, they are colour prints taken from a scan of the Vario
transfers, just to check sizing etc.
Finally for
today I also managed to get around to permanently fitting the
special (and crucial) fibreglass ring that is epoxied into the
rotating tail cone using UHU End Fest two part adhesive, which is a
long curing adhesive recommended by Vario, but once any item is
stuck with it they are totally immovable once it has fully
cured. 
This ring must
be fitted totally square to the tail cones centre axis, as the
entire tail cone will rotate on this ring (with some titanium grease
applied on the inside) and the servo that it is fitted to at the
other (back) end. I feel pretty comfortable that this one is
positioned correctly. 
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