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Hovercraft Hull

hovercraft Hull
Here is the basic shell of the cockpit made , minus the seat and steering items, i have specifically left these items out for now so that once the basic hull is created i can add the motor and work out what the weight distribution will be and then create the internals of the cockpit accordingly.
stiched seams
As boring as the picture maybe i thought i would add this anyway just to show anyone starting out building a superwedge that the panels prior to fibre glassing get stitched together with wire, (although hard to see in the picture anyway) and to be honest this is a brilliant concept , it saves time and effort and in some cases automatically aligns the plywood edges up. The fiber glassed section you see here is the extension to the length i made so i could fit a subaru engine to it later on.
hull corners
This picture here is a view of the rear of the cockpit, the reason i added this pic is purely cause i can 🙂 but apart from that its just showing the rear panel that has been "V" grooved with a router and then bent into place, another neat concept as this also saves time and hassles. :-), the masking tape applied to the panel is on the opposite side to the V groove and is there to help prevent the ply splitting to pieces when folded
qcelled edges
All three of these pictures are showing views of the cockpit filleted with epoxy resin and Q cells, and then fiber glassed over the top with epoxy resin and 50mm tape

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