Accident!Let's start a new update with a size comparison in my hand.
The front and wing are nearly done so I continued on the tail.
Here I drilled into the fuselage and added 0.4mm brass pipes as control wire outlets (the "patches " are not yet painted).
The kit do not contain control horns, so I used a stripe from a PE fret to make my own. The sizes are different.
The horns had a special shape so I made them thicker by soldering. The ones for the tail also get Gaspatch turnbuckles.
I noticed on the picture that also on the ailerons the wire to not go directly to the horn but to an additional movable element, so I added that too.
So I could mount the ailerons and connect the control wires.
The tailplane was added and the control wires added, from the outlets to the turnbuckles.
Another feature: please note the white arrows (decals from another kit).
The arrows shows the mechanics the brass drain pipes, which should be clean and open. This was a wooden fuselage and these had problems with condensation water. As the back part is closed here are outlets. The OEFFAG Albatros used much more outlets (the arrows are in the Eduard kit, but the outlets are not mentioned).
The controls wires on lower side are also shown.
Now to the accident of the headline!
I wanted to mask the rudder to airbrush the crosses, but here you can see the yellow resin!
To avoid another loop I made a new rudder from polystyrene.
The mount points prepared already so it fits. Now it is primed with my trusty Alclad primer (bites into plastic), painted grey and it drying now.
I continued on the wheels. Masked, sanded, primed, sanded, painted a dark grey Gunze H83 (a different shade as on the fuselage), and finally flat clear coat.
On the pictures the rims looks black painted, but the contrast was a bit high. So I brush painted the rims with Revell anthracite (the paint is a bit old, so not perfect).
The wheels are mounted now:
That's all for today.
Cheers,
Frank
