Well as they say two steps forward and one step back....
Before any priming I decided to slot in the Cabanes on the fuselage. This is a little bit of a trick on the Special Hobby model as there are no holes or location indents to do this. Really this is the hardest (more stressful really) part of what is seeming a very simple and easy model.
On the fuselage Special Hobby would have you flush mount the Cabanes. Which for many reasons just will not work, you could I guess sand the underside of the cabanes to the correct angle and pin them, but I don't think it would be very a very strong join and bound to come apart at the worst time - during rigging as an example. Therefore time to cut into plastic, in doing this I managed to knock the lower wings out of kilter and then well just pulled them off until I was done with carving... One mistake down lol....
I hate carving into perfectly good fuselage, I always expect to slip and make a heck of a mess. I did mark and mask around where I was going to carve into the fuselage though, which really helps. This is one of those times you get the dividers out and measure many times before cutting, or at least I do.
In the last pictures the lower wings are back on and I have some clean up to do sigh, also I'll fair in the slot on the side of the fuselage for the rear cabane and restore the metal mounting detail that I destroyed in carving, second mistake carved to far.... DOH
Of course I couldn't resist fitting the upper wing (actually a really good idea just to make sure of alignment, and looking up into the upper wing I'll deepen the locating pin holes in the wing so its sits flush when permanently mounted.
I'll have to do all of this again for the aileron pushrods as there are no holes or locations for those either
but they will be easier (cursed myself now) as they are just rods and can be easily drilled. Priming next....
