It's really coming along. I will be playing with the AEG landing gear tonight!
Dan
I guess this must be the weekend for landing gears then, did you make any progress with yours? I got both the tail skid and the main gear under my Halberstadt.
Here's the main gear. I cut the legs out of sheet plastic and they're a bit thicker than they should be but I sacrificed scale for strength. The cross-tubes are brass from Albion Alloys with copper wire running through them to hold the legs together and then its wrapped around the brass rod axle to replicate the bungee cords. It's a bit of a mess really and I'm glad the wheels will hide most of it!
The main gear needed to be removable so the model can go back in the wing jig, it slips on and off with the 4 brass wire pins going into holes drilled into the fuselage.
I also started work on the gun ring. It took a couple of tries to get the mounts between the ring and the rear fuselage right, I had one pair in place but decided they just weren't right and so I snapped them off and started over. The ones on there now aren't perfect but they will do.
That's it for this weekend!
-Dan