As the others said, KANiles, that's quite a triumphant introduction. Beautiful bird!
Any chance you've got in-progress photos so that you could post an abbreviated build log? I'd love to see a step-by-step of your weathering and wood work. I'm sure you'd have a captive audience here.
Looking forward to some more,
Lindsay
Lindsay,
I dug up a few more shots. I hope you enjoy, I don't have any in-progress shots of the wood graining. I have a Roland in the stack for my next project. I'm looking at turning that one into a "B" version, and then a full natural wood finish. All that planking!!
The fuselage drain holes are framed by small p/e washers, and the fuel sump extending through one of the covers was added. The cross bracing goes up through the holes in the fuselage and attaches to the fuselage formers under the pilot's seat.
The intake manifold is "asbestos wrapped" with Tamiya tape.
The spark plugs, of which you can see down through the exhaust pipes from each cylinder, are made up of 5 parts each ( I wish I had the Taurus ones!) a stretched tube, brass wire through, a model RR plastic nut and then a brass p/e nut slid over that then a smaller p/e nut slid over the attached spark plug wire.
In this shot, please note the magneto key hanging outside the cockpit in "safe mode."
