Thank you everyone for your wonderful and encouraging comments.
This one is really starting to shape up now. I still have to make some wing struts and a propeller. I am thinking about making all of them from laminated paperboard, like the Fokker prop I did last year. The superglue really transformed the paper layers into a rock hard material, which should be strong and stiff enough for wing struts.
Most recently, I've been focusing on detail work around the cockpit and tail.
Here I mounted the guns with ammo chutes, caps for the different tanks, cockpit coaming (a 0.075" plastic tube slit on one side), and air intakes for the engine.
Rigging around the tail. The brass tubes simulate turnbuckles and don't look all that accurate in this view, but when viewed from further away, they look the part. On the actual plane, they are small turnbuckles.
The floats have been painted the base gray color, so weathering them is next for them.
Thanks for checking in!
