David, Mark, RAGIII - thank you - really pleased you boys are along for the ride!
Right, OK - next update.
Fitted front cabane struts and decided to make sure the top wing was nicely aligned. This was a real headache. Try as I might, I could not get a good alignment between upper and lower wing. I then tried to align by dry fitting the interplane struts which helped to an extent. Long story short, ended up having to slightly shorten the cabane struts. In addition, I have had to play around with the upper wing again resulting in having to drill a new hole for the struts on starboard side. This was to get the wing parallel with the lower one. All this has taken two nights to achieve. I just hope that it will all fit together when required although I have a gut feeling I may have another battle at this stage ............... We'll see.
Having a good think on this, I speculate that the problem has arisen by my straightening of the upper wing. At the beginning, I said the upper wing (straight from box) has a bow upwards at the centre. Straightening the wing must have lowered wing height at this point meaning the kit cabanes were now too tall.
In between lots of cursing and swearing, decided to knock up the MG flash guard thingies that sit atop the motor. I achieved this by cutting some sprue (straight ones), filing out flat and then filing in a narrow groove down the centre creating the 'rail'. Cut into two sections using trial and error measurements on the motor to get right length. I then used smaller sprue (filed flat) to join the two rails. Fitted in and painted up as shown. The only other detailing up is to create the empty cartridge case shutes for the MG's when fitted.
Next, over to the paint shop.
Regards
Dave
