Hello all,
I thought it would be an idea to make another trainer aircraft to go with the Camel and the Jenny I made up here for the "old kit" and "2-seater" group builds, and managed to pick up the old Inpact Boxkite kit on e-bay - 3 happened to come up in the same week, the first went for £45, I got the 3rd one for quite a bit less

Here is what I got (after a bit of primer paint):

There were no instructions, but Sean O'Brien very kindly took the trouble to send me a PDF scan of some he had - thanks again Sean.
You might be able to see from the photo that one of the tail-support booms is warped. I tried to straighten that out with hot water, but with catastrophic results which made it far worse (you live and learn!) so I made up a new part from some plastruct strip.
Also one of the ailerons was missing, so I made up a replacement from some scrap plastic (actually a plastic flower pot marker!), and some tap and a bit of filler, for the ribs.

Putting the centre section together:

and that piece as it is is done so far:

I will continue this in a further post, in a moment