Thanks Zac, Dave and Rick! Things have just gone slightly sideways but I haven't wrapped it around a tree yet!
So today I started trying to add the bottom wing and the struts. Things went well with a simple jig and measurements from my 3-views seem spot on! Correct dihedral, distances between planes looks good, trailing edge wing sweep-back is nice and parallel. However..........
When I add my struts which are currently just thin wire, the printed position for the top wing underside is substantially off. You can see the "Ugly" arrow where the strut is perfectly vertical, but the attachment point is off. Plus, the struts are too short. The shortness of the struts could well be my fault as making the center section trapeze could be slightly off. Not too bad and doesn't look obvious at all.
But the strut location areas are odd to me. I've never had this happen and when I look at the construction, I don't know how that would have crept in. The center section and top wing panels are flush and the bottom wing locations are correct while the hull width is fine. I just don't know where I got the error. I doubt it's printed wrong but I guess it could be. I'm too far down this road to worry about it though.
My plan is to simply relocate the top wing underside strut locations a smidge, make scratch struts, paint out the printed locations and it'll be just fine. Certainly, the overall look and feel is awesome so I'm not worried if I'm off a bit. Still looks like an elegant Lohner to me!
Anyway, I hope to at least get those bottom wings and struts started soon but now I do need to so some scratch fabrication. No harm done. We are model BUILDERS after all!
More soon...Dan
