Saturday Musings-Clowniac?

Question. Should I call this plane the JL Special JR or the Clowniac? Right now I am leaning to Clowniac.
How did this project get started? Back in September 2004 I was on eBay and I saw an auction for a reproduced JR Satan offered by henry 36912. So I bid on it figuring I could use the wing for a Flying Clown sized sport flier. I won the auction.
So three weeks ago I opened the package. Nice wood selection! So I built the wing. Straight and light. Good start.
Then I measured the fuselage length on my Brodak Flying Clown = 18 inches. So then I cut two pieces of 3/16 by 2 x 18 balsa. I knew I wanted to use a 3.25 oz. GRW Chicken Hopper Tank, so I marked the engine mounting space on the balsa blank. Then i measured the necessary tank room. That left the mark for the wing cutout. The rest of the blank is the tail moment.
Then I made the wing cutouts.
Then I glued the two blanks together with a sheet of Brodak carbon fiber veil in between. I never build without carbon fiber veil. It makes balsa planes almost indestrutcable.
Then I made a stabilizer and an elevator that sort of look like Flying Clown surfaces. I just eyeballed my Clown on the wall.
Then I made a reduced size Mongoose rudder for the Clowniac in case I ever want to tie a streamer to it.
You may be wondering why the wing has two different colors? Well, the wing was supposed to be covered in Oracover fluorescent orange. But I ran out of Oracover after covering half of the wing. So I dug out some coral Monokote that I bought on sale years ago and finished covering the wing.
The fuselage is finished with two coats of water-based clear polyurethane topped with two coats of Red Devil Polyurethane Oil Enamel. I have used this finishing method before. It is fuelproof, tough, cheap, easy to apply with a brush, looks pretty good, and best of all-doesn't stink up the house and upset the family.
But I am running out of Red Devil and it is hard to obtain around here. So I will probably try switching to Rustoleum in cans.
This is all for now. More will follow.