I don't wish to distract form the other great builds here and I meant to post progress pics as I worked but never took any. Camera and time constraints.
So now she isnt as built as the pics indicate. Wings, rudder and cowl are all dry fitted.
My findings... There are a few points I thought WNW could have handled better but overall it's an impressive feat of egineering, tightly fitted engineering in places so be warned. WNW tolerances apply.
Downs are few: detail on the fuel control panel seems soft. I would have prefered the lower mount for the rudder bar assembly to be seperate from the front panel. The compass could have been moulded as a seperate item, I know it doesnt affect this build but the earlier E.III's need it removed from the wing risking damage to the detail nearby.
Basically thats the downers done.
Uppers: Some wonderfully thought out solutions to this planes eccentricities.
So a brief buld blog. All pretty much OOB so far apart from cutting the lower rudderbar mountings away from the floor and thinning them, adding a couple of pipes that are hardly visible. building up the guage on the fuelcontrol panel and replacing the hand fuel pressure pump pipe with copper wire. I added a map folder from a spare from some PE and have a few other small mods planned, Seatbelts and such have yet to be done.
The tail assembly is really femer, I've bent it twice while handling, I thing brass rod strengthenig is going to be a must here... For me at least.
Anyway, pics.
Yes theres a pushrod and rocker asembly adrift, I put it somewhere*coughs* safe... along with the small rod under the cockpit side that snapped off ..
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As always comments, advice etc are always welcome
Keith
