Evening All,
Here is my last instalment of the construction thread for this model.
The undercarriage is the last major sub-assembly on this model and was as complicated as any other assembly. First I had to clean the bad mould joints: the tyres needed similar treatment. Assembly of the undercarriage was fiddly but having got this far it was not a major problem. Proper aligned was the key while it dried out. I added the wind pumps to the sides of the fuselage, fuel pipes, engine platforms (and their supporting wires), ailerons and all of the control surface horns after the undercarriage units wherein place as I did not fancy replacing them when they were knocked off as they would have been had I followed the assembly sequence in the instructions. The final details were then added: propellors, pitot tube, crew entry hatch, gun pillars and guns, forward gun ring, windscreens and the tail skid, etc. The tail skid had two springs, one on each side, which I simulated with a ring of stretched sprue. I added a crew ladder and two maintenance ladders to my model just for effect - they were made from thin strip.
I have posted more pictures in the competed models section.
Thanks for looking.
