Building a Yak 54

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July 26

Spent most of yesterday at a friend’s house building a Yak54 30" EPP sheet 3D 'Trainer’. Can’t wait to test fly.

This is what we started with.

Tape the enlarged plans together and tape them to the EPP so you can cut them out.

What the pieces look like when they’re cut out.

Hard to visualize if you’ve never seen control surfaces before but we decided to use glue hinges. First you cut along the control surfaces then you bevel one side, we decided to bevel the top surface. We tacked the wings and tail upside down on a board and spread a layer of E6000 adhesive along the seam. Believe it or not the adhesive makes a nice little hinge.

E6000 Adhesive - 3.7 oz, Glues & Jewelry Supplies

E6000 Adhesive - 3.7 oz, Glues & Jewelry Supplies

We decided on a pattern for painting, masked and rattle-can painted.

Paint Job and most of the parts from above. Just missing the control rods.

Total weight in grams give or take with most all the parts. Just missing the control rods but that won’t add much.

Next it just needs to be assembled and then add the electronics.

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