Hello everyone,
Thanks once again for your positive feedback and encouragement. I've completed the work on the wheels
and am waiting for some Albion Alloys thin walled tube to make the landing gear struts. I have to send out
a big "Thank you" to Mike Norris and his PDF builds. I'll be following his method to replicate the struts.
In the meantime, I've been working on the correction of the upper wing. The wing has gained notoriety from it's
upside down taper. Basically, the wing has "Anhedral" on the top side. The correction was very simple as described
in the January 1999 FineScale Modeler article "Fixing a Fokker".
I started by making some small cuts to the upper half of the wing at the places marked in black.
I taped the part down to my work bench and used CA glue to lock the new shape. After the CA cured I used epoxy to
glue a square brass tube to ensure the wing held it's new shape. I also removed the ailerons to give them some offset.
I glued the bottom to the top halves together and now I have a corrected wing.
This was the easiest part of my quest to correct the shape of this kit.
Thanks for following and enjoy the rest of your summer or winter, where ever you may be.
Happy Modeling,
Kevin