How can I hide my pushrods and control horns on my Eraser / Warbird / Jazz?
All you need to do is fool the eye. If you have balsa ailerons, mount the aileron control horns so that the horn base plate is right at the inboard end of the aileron. This enables you to bury the control pushrod more completely in slots in the side of the fuse from the servo arm. If you have the cutouts from the fuse, slice thin pieces(about 1/8th”) off the outsides of them and stick them back in the holes with contact cement (not GOOP) and set them smooth with the fuse surfaces. Make a map of the positions of all equipment holes with accurate measurements from a known datum point, so you can locate them if you ever need to go back in to do “internal surgery”. Then tape over with cross directional tape, overlapping well for strengths sake. Do all your strapping tape covering and smooth it down well with a hot iron until you are satisfied it is perfect, then, and only then, cover with the final coloured covering tape or film. Cut the little trenches for the aileron and elevator pushrod
