Wingnut Wings RAF SE.5a Lt. Arthur Rhys Davids

[gbrivio]

Beautiful work so far, with living insides.
Ciao
Giuseppe

[kensar]

Nice work on the interior, Lance.  The wrinkling seems to be quite common on these aircraft.

[Early Bird Fan]

glad you got the 2 halves together, it's looking great

[mgunns]

That is a big step Lance:  It's always with fear and trepidation and a big deep breath when the modeler buttons up the fuselage, hoping with crossed fingers that it all fits.  You done good Lance.  Got it together with minimum clean up, what more could one ask for?  The rest is all downhill as they say.

[lcarroll]

   Thanks for commenting Guys, your encouragement is appreciated! I got it sanded today and it's more or less ready to start on the paint phase. Preshading is next on the list.
Cheers,
Lance

[lcarroll]

   As I've already mentioned here, this is the worst time of the year to find time for important things, like building model airplanes; far too much preparation for 6 months of Winter for my taste!
   I have managed to complete the pre-shading, drilled out the holes for the rigging eyelet anchors, and have started their installation. As you will know the SE5a had a lot of double rigging lines so the eyelet installation is a "fiddly" and time consuming process. It seemed like a million bits of masking strips went into this phase!



.....and the end results:





   ...... and a couple of the eyelets. I'm using my own ones made with nichrome wire and Bob's Buckles as well on this model.



   Hopefully the next update will come sooner then this!
Cheers,
Lance

[gedmundson]

Looking great. Lance. I'm sure with the weather like this today you'll be staying cozy at the model bench
Cheers,
Gary

[PrzemoL]

Great progress. I am looking forward to see more of it.

[RAGIII]

The pre shading looks excellent and yes that was a lot of masking!
RAGIII

[Early Bird Fan]

nicely done, those rigging eyelets look proper fiddly

[macsporran]

Great progress, LC. Nice prep work and splendid interior. (Like you I remember the difficulty of getting the fuselage halves together with the wing and flooring in place.)
Sandy

[lcarroll]

    Thanks for your comments Guys. You are correct Gary, the weather has shifted into winter mode and the Model Desk has a lot of appeal presently. Sandy, I agree, despite the genius level of engineering in the Wingnut Wings line I still puzzle at the assembly sequence and challenges of getting the lower wing, cockpit module, and fuselage halves together without considerable bending, forcing, and plain old abuse of the King's English on this Kit. To be honest I don't recall how, in the end, it all fell together!
Cheers,
Lance

[Ernie]

All I can say Lance is when you're good, it "falls together" beautifully, although
they say talking to it...gently...seems to help ease the urge to de-hair oneself.
Great update and the pre-shading looks amazing!  Well done, my friend.

Cheers,
Ernie

[lcarroll]

    Thanks Ernie. The bottom of the fuselage wouldn't fit past the floor edge and had to be trimmed a bit at a time to finally "snap" into place so tightly that I had to use extra thin CA "wicked" into the seams to get a permanent joint. More luck then good management but I'll take it!
Cheers,
Lance

[lone modeller]

No wonder the update was a long time coming... that was indeed a lot of fiddly work with the masking. Now it looks as though you have a lot more with all the eyelets etc. But keep it up Lnce - another mini-masterpiece is in the making.

Stephen.