I'd been flying the Radjet regularly with no launch issues when I somehow crashed it the other day, which was both annoying and disappointing. Looking at the mangled and oft-glued nose I decided to give it a radical repair.
So, on arriving home, I sliced off the mangled front fuselage and then waited for inspiration. Not many options came to mind as the Radjet sat on the desk looking disgruntled. In fact the only viable option was using a caulking tube, except that I could figure how to get it to fit.
Eventually I fitted the round tube around a wooden template to match the fuselage shape and heated it with boiling water, hoping that this would help to set the shape. I cut away the top section of the tube in the fuselage area to provide access for mounting hardware, and hot-melted it into place with a few small bolts through the fuselage to help keep it in place.
The lower section of the fuselage, where it used to meet up with the front, I tapered down as the caulking tube was much thinner than the EPO original.
The result I gave a broad silver stripe from the nose all the way down the fuselage, and bordered it with a black stripe for good measure. The result looks interesting but certainly better than before.
Hopefully I'll get it into the air soon and see how it flies; I'm hoping it'll be well as I've been missing blasting the Radjet around the fields...
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