Originally Posted by Glider Guider

The tail feathers are now built and hinged. The hinges supplied with the kit consist of two identical plastic mouldings that clip together but then have considerable reluctance to move, I’m sure in practice they would work fine but I prefer hinges with a metal pivot and more free moving so I have used Robart pin hinges.

Two things I could do with a bit of advice on

Over the past year or so I have acquired a quantity of new and part used rolls of covering material that I want to use up. I intend to use Solartex to cover the model, my rolls are in a multitude of colours and the model will certainly look a bit peculiar until it is painted. However one unstarted roll is Glosstex, Solartex with a two-part paint finish apparently, my question is does Glosstex paint if roughened first and if I covered the fuselage in the Glosstex is it likely to look totally different compared to painted Solartex when everything is painted up.

My second question is about the selection of servos for this model. My thoughts are that as each aileron has its own servo that I could get away with standard JR BB servos and possibly for the rudder but I doubt that there would be sufficient torque for the elevator. If anyone has experience of this size of model or can point me to a helpful website I’d be grateful.