Hi all,
First up for working is the cockpit.
This particular aircraft was one of a contract batch, serial numbers A1461 - A1510, that were contracted out (87/A/475) during 1916 from ?Armstrong-Whitworth & Co. Ltd? of Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
They were to be built by ?Hewlett & Blondeau Ltd? of Oak Road, Leagrave, Luton.
The contract required dual controls were to be fitted as these aircraft were intended as trainers and not for service use.
The kit is intended to built as an operational aircraft of No:47 Squadron.
Therefore, it has a stool seat in the rear cockpit and no duplicated flight controls.
I chose to fit a pilots type Wicker seat in the rear cockpit and as such matched the pilot's seat with the same Barracuda Studio resin seats.
Seat support bars were cut from Brass tube.
To add duplicate flight controls in the rear cockpit required that a false floor be fitted to span both cockpits.
That was cut from 0.8 mm thick plastic card and CA glued to the kit floors.
The kit supplied control column assembly was drilled and pinned to locate positively into the false floor.
The control column and rudder bar for the rear cockpit were created from unused 3D printed parts with some Brass tubing.
There's only so much accuracy that can be added, mainly due to lack of cockpit information for this aircraft.
So some guesswork is necessary, based on similar aircraft types,
Mike
