RiggingMy mood is not back completely. Made some silly mistakes, which need time to repair and need in general lot of time for easy things ... But I continued!
At first I was out of brass sleeves and had to cut new ones to be able to start the rigging.
I noticed some conflict between the wires and my bigger wheels, so I sanded down the tires a lot and have to repaint the tires.
On the pictures of the real bird I found two maintenance panels, so I decided to add them. Made from brass and I soldered a fake hinge to the lower end.
Tinned and painted. On the Cent there are some fasteners squeezed from 0,3mm brass.
Opened the wood behind and in place. Should have done this in earlier state, would be much easier.
Added control wire outlets and stripes of aluminium foil to the tail, to close the cutout.
The rigging is finished, as far as I'm aware of wires.
Also the control wires. Very hard to get them straight with this fishing line.
Tried to modify the kit levers. The position according to the manual does not make sense, but they are to big and cannot be mount as it should be.
I lost already glued wire outlets on the side, so I had to remove them on lower surface to replace missing ones and use now another type below.
On the control horns I no idea how to mount the turnbuckle to the huge control horns. At the end I used flat PE turnbuckles form a Parts set. Drilled a hole in the middle, bent them and mount with a micro rivet.
Some detail painting is needed and the front window is also missing, but then this bird is finished.
I think I will not add a weathering to this flat/matt paint and let it as clean object on display.
Cheers,
Frank
