Evening All,
Many thanks to all who have dropped by and left a comment - I much appreciate all of them. I can assure you Richie that at the moment the next project seems to be far into the distant future so I will not be thinking about that for a while...
I have been very slow recently - life has rather got in the way and I had a setback as I had to make a completely new elevator. I had rigged the original elevator and was looking at some of the photos of the model in the science museum when I noticed that there were three lines of transverse struts and not two as I had made..... I decided that it would ultimately be easier to make, paint and rig a new elevator. The struts were placed in the sequence:
outer struts first - allow to set;
the under frame was transferred from the original elevator to the new one;
inner struts which were rigged with 40 SWG rolled copper wire when dry as they were easier to access at this stage;
the remaining struts were added from the centre outwards:
The inner struts were rigged first, followed by the front and rear sets:
The wings were rigged and the wingtip struts put into place:
The pilot's seat was glued to the leading edge of the lower wing:
Finally I have made the "elevators" - unusual structures which were attached to the wingtip struts and were intended to give a degree of lateral control:
I hope by the next post to have completed the model, but at the current rate of progress that could still be a little longer yet.
Thanks for looking.
Stephen.
