Thanks Terri and Rag.
Today I got the bits back inside from the Garage (I've previously advised of our exotic parrots and my wife's very black and white attitude to fumes of any sort in the house) and fitted the transparent covers for the control cable pulley recesses. These were held in place with PVA glue.
You can see that there is quite a gap between the transparent piece and the rest of the part, so the triangle of the observation window will be masked off (there is about a 1mm border around each one) and then a border masked around each one so as to allow me to fill this area and then sand it back almost flush (just the thickness of the tape remaining. This will hopefully repliate the quite heavy rib tape I recall seeing on the RAAF Point Cook Museum example. Although, the Vintage Aviator examples shows the Horizontal Stab to have a different way of tackling this to the Main planes.
But that filling will be a while away, unless I do it with the old Tipex pen that I found with my old paint store... But I can't find my Tamiya filler. The local shops are closed due a spike in our Covid cases and a statewide (if surprisingly short (5 Day)) lockdown... I could order some on line I guess.
In the mean time, I'm being nagged to do some more work on this.
Its a scratch built example of the HMS Surprise. The ship from the film "Master and Commander". My wife asked me to build it for a friend of ours, and who am I to argue. I found the lines drawing on line and set about working it up into something passable. Completely scratch built. The only shop bought parts in the end will be the cannons and the dead eyes for the rigging.
Please be gentle, It's my first model ship. My father built scores of them when I was growing up. There was always a small table between him and the Television in the evenings as he worked on the rigging...
The more eagle eyed of you will notice another kit box on the bench... That's the Roden BE12b. This is going to be my MOJO fidning build. It has already been started (I've cut parts off the sprues and started cleaning them up).
This one will be genuinely OOB. Apart from rigging of course. I recall from building the BE2c that this kit is based on, it goes together OK.
Cheers,
Hugh