Quest Aerospace One Build Part 1 Parts
Here's the parts layout from the kit. This model was designed by Shrox when he was working for Quest. It was featured on the 2010 Quest Catalog cover with two ES-1 Escort models. It's a larger model to be flown with 18mm engines. On any larger model over two feet tall, I usually ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 2 Engine Mount Steps 1 - 6
To convert this mount from 18mm to 24mm engines: A 24mm engine casing was stood up and centered on the rings included in the kit. Trace around the base of the engine with a fine point pencil. Tracing around the smaller diameter engine casing (instead of a slightly larger BT-50 sized ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 3 Steps 9 - 10 Spine Fin Step 9 has you remove the laser cut fins from the sheet and sand the edges. I sanded enough to remove the hold down tabs and remove the burned edges.
The antenna tabs are glued onto the spine. TIP: Looking back on this part of the build, I should have glued the antennas on AFTER the wings ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 4 Steps 11 - 12 Wood Prep
We'll skip over Steps 8 through 10 for the moment. Step 11 has you glue the wing parts together. Like the instruction illustration shows, Waxed paper was taped down. The two pieces were glued together, lined up on a straightedge. Weights were set over the joint so both pieces would glue flush ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 5 Decal Prep
I thought this kit had water slide decals, but it's got the "peel and stick". I would have preferred the water slide. Right out of the bag these decals had wrinkles and lifted areas on the sheet. Even though Quest recommends Testors 1210 Bright Blue paint, I didn't want to risk the paint not ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 6 Step 13 - 14 Gluing The Spine This model is a complex build and because I decided to paint the blue trim, a difficult mask. Again, I should have thought ahead before gluing the spine in place. The spine was lightly glued on and the fin edges sanded to better fit the angle of the joint. After fitting the root edges I ended up ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 7 Step 14 Wing and Spine Fit It looks like this model will be masked and painted in sub assemblies and glued to the main body tube afterwards. In the instructions, the intake tube is already painted before gluing on. This is the only way I can see to do the blue masks. The areas to be glued will be masked with thin strips of ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 8 Step 18 - 19 Dowels
Jumping ahead: I glued the dowels onto the wing and rudder pieces. The instructions simply say to glued the dowel to the top edge. I glued it on so the back end overhangs a slight amount. (Top rudder) This way I could sand the dowel end to fit the trailing edge of the rudder. (Lower rudder)
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Quest Aerospace One Part 9 Stick On Trim Check This model will be painted in sub assemblies then glued together. Meaning, the wings and rudders will be painted white, masked then the blue trim is sprayed. After that, all will be glued together. I'll have to mask off the areas that will be glued together for a better bond. You could certainly ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 10 Step 20 Lug Position
Before gluing the lug on, I wanted to test fit the pieces to make sure the location would work. First, the intake tube is split down it's length. I used my aluminum angle to help guide the knife. On models near to or larger than 24" tall, I'll usually switch out a provided 1/8" diameter lug for ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 11 Masking for Glue Joints
The wing was dry fitted down the pencil line to mark for masking tape to go on the body tube. In the picture the wing was slid down from the end tic mark to show the tape pencil marks. The body tube tape will be a little inside the areas that will be seen when the model is painted and glued ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 12 Step 22 Rudder Masking
As mentioned before, I decided to paint the blue on rather than use the stick on pieces. I used my standard Scotch tape masks hit with a black marker. The tape was set on glass and a wide marker line is drawn down the middle. The tape is cut down the middle of the line with a strait edge. This ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 13 Step 22 Wing Mask
This is the top of the wing mask ready for the blue paint. I wanted the blue paint to wrap over the leading edge of the wing. The bottom surface of the wing is white overall. Look close and you can see the Scotch tape lip going across the bottom of the leading edge. A small amount of the tape ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 14 Step 22 Front Body Mask This is the most complicated part of the mask. It probably would have been easier to use the stick on pieces, but a paint match is hard to get right. Also, the stick-ons didn't seem long enough to cover from the front of the body tube to under the wing tip.
I used the "D" piece from the ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 15 Step 22 Front Body Mask
Good thing I checked the coverage of the wing over the blue at the front end.. The tape strips I cut weren't long enough to reach under the wing. This is the final mask before spraying. The inset pic shows the coverage on the canards. After spraying I had to "push" some small paint ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 16 Gluing It Together
The inside center line of the wing got a thick line of white glue.
This was turned over and set on the masked area of the body tube down the center line. I let this set up before gluing on the rudders.
The sides of the rudders were glued onto the already masked areas on the body ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 17 Step 21 Bad Intake Tube
I had some problems with the intake tube. The mask went fine, the color separation was looking good. When the tape was being pulled off, it pulled up a layer of the tube. It didn't just pull up the paint but a layer of paper underneath the paint! This had to be a bad gluing of the paper tube ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 18 New Intake Steps 21, 23 & 25
A new tube was cut from some 50mm scrap. The picture shows the black interior of the tube. The instructions make no mention of painting the inside of the tube. The tube was large enough I could fill the inside seams and sand it smooth. It was sprayed with primer, sanded and the interior sprayed ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 19 Step 26 Fitting the Intake Tube
Fitting the intake tube took some extra work. The top edge of the intake fin was tall. I wanted the sides of the split intake tube to sit right under the wing joint. Slide it on from the front to get an idea of how much of the intake fin has to be taken down.
About 3/32" was sanded down ...
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Quest Aerospace One Part 20 Step 30 Decals Bill Stine has given permission to make the Aerospace One decal sheet available. If you'd like a PDF of the Aerospace One "print it yourself" decal sheet, email me at: oddlrockets@bellsouth.net Please note: The available decal art is the property of Quest Aerospace and used by permission. The ...
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