Postcard from the edge

[The Wooksta!]

Got the canopy fitted on Friday and did the filler work around it earlier.  Possibly a bit more to do here, but once the Trappoklappe is in place, the fuselage is by and large done. 

Well, it would be if the glazing for the gondola actually fitted...

[The Wooksta!]

Recent-ish progress

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Gondola plug.  Needs more work.

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Fixing the trailing edge chord.  Since sanded back and the flap hinge line filled and rescribed in the right place.

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Notching the top of the nacelles for the exhaust.  The black dots are the maximum width points.

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Waisting the engine nacelles down to accept the cowlings.  If you squint a bit, you may well see the scribed line that marks the outline of where the cowlings will go.

[zenrat]

You've got more patience with PSR than I have.

Kudos.
 

[The Wooksta!]

And it looked like this last Sunday.


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I've since found that the starboard wing is too far back in relation to the port wing and have had to modify the main spar to bring it foward. By which I mean hack great lumps out of it.

[Old Wombat]

 

[zenrat]

Is that an A2 cutting mat?
Strewth!

[The Wooksta!]

Yes, I salvaged half a dozen or so from a skip when I worked at the Chronicle a good twelve years back.  Barely used, most got handed to mates.  OGL got one IIRC.  I have two left.

[PR19_Kit]

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Gondola plug.  Needs more work.

For a moment I thought you'd been baking loaves of bread! 

[The Wooksta!]

It's now primed white.

[Captain Canada]

Looking good.

[The Wooksta!]

Trappoklappe now in place and blended in.  Just need to add the bumper on the back edge.  Barring the under nose gondola, and a fresh coat of grey primer, the fuselage is just about done.

[SeagullNut]

Vacforms are the work of madmen, good grief.

[The Wooksta!]

Other than drill out the gun ports on the turrets to receive some barrels, very little progress.  Although I did prime the props.

[The Wooksta!]

Engine cowlings have had their panel lines reinstated and have been primed.  The props are all painted too.

Whilst I was spraying other things, I sprayed the remote control barbettes in the relevant colours. I'll be sorting out the wheels next, but the tail wheel assembly is all done.