The lower wings have been constructed and assembled to the fuselage.
A wing skeleton I constructed and the wing skin panel is cut, folded and glued in place.
The ribs are individually cut and two (2) holes are drilled using a pin vice in each for reinforcing music wire. The leading music wire is .020 K&S Music Wire and the lagging wire is .032 K&S Music Wire. I cheated here whereby I enlarged the rubs to provide enough width to accept the Music wire. The length of the ribs are trimmed to the correct length. However this method lost some of the concavity of the ribs so next time I will need to "squeeze" the ribs to maintain the concavity.
Squeezed together on the music wire allows the ribs to be accurately trimmed.
Pieces of cardboard are glued between the ribs and above the music wire. It is important that each and every piece of cardboard be the same width to ensure the left and right hand wings are the same length. At this point the left and right hand wings are assembled to the same pieces of music wire. Nothing really special with this, it happens to be the way I did it.
A length of .032 K&S Music Wire is run along the leading edge and bent to define the outside edges of each wing. A groove was cut into the leading edge of each rib to accept the music wire and gel super glue was used as the adhesive.
The leading and trailing edges are covered thin vellum paper.
I process the wing panels different than in my earlier posts. To achieve the lower wing concavity, or what is left of it, and to have a neater outer edge, I trained the paper by pre-bending into the desired final shape.
Next the edges are glued together; the trailing edge is not glued at this time. When dry, the wing envelope is slipped over the respective skeleton and the trailing edge is glued at this time. Clips are used on the trailing edge to get a snug fit.
This is one of the two wing edges post assembly and prior to any "post processing".
Holes are drilled into the fuselage and the wings are attached and glued into place using gel superglue.
The fairings are glued into place. The trailing fairing should have been glued prior to assembling the wing. Something that I should have done better is to realize that the fuselage location where the wings are being placed is not flat, but the inner side of the wings are flat; there is a rib at the inner edge. I used ready patch, paint and cosmetic powder to fix this problem.
