New Quickie 100 micro pylon racer project

The professionally packed, beautiful Quickie kit has arrived to my door today. I decided to start the assembly beginning with the covering of the wing which, being made of foam, for me was a relatively novel material to handle.

Tasos was kind enough to send me also 3 samples of the wing foam material which I first covered in polyurethane spray. The foam material was not solved by the spray, but upon drying, the surface became susceptible to denting easily, as the spray took away the flexibility of the foam to some extent.

I tried another sample with Oracover light film at about 40% heat set on my filming iron. Results were quite good, so I decided to cover the wing with Oralight transparent white film. The front part of the wing made of carbon shield did not allow a bubble-free coverage, and remained a bit spotty, but it does not disturb me and I may decide later to cover this part in a non-transparent, additional Oracover color scheme. I will cover the fuselage and tail section in the same transparent white Oralight, because it allows the nice balsa wood grains to remain visible.

The foam body of the wing itself allowed a smooth coverage, and ended up a shiny surface. Again, the temperature setting of the iron should not exceed IMHO about 40% which is warm enough to anchor the film on the balsa side and rear parts of the wing as well as to the carbon traveling edge, and shrink it tight, but is not too hot to damage the foam.




I will post further milestones of the assembly later.