Ah yes well....
This has turned into a bit of a disaster and been placed on the shelf of doom, im afraid.
There are several pitfalls in this kit that are not WNW fault but need care nontheless. The lower wing spars snap easily. Regluing them lost the dihedral, which was not apparent until fitting the struts and wings.
Not even close! Any confuration left one wing strut a centimeter too short, snapping a cabane strut in the process.
If you have this problem, reglue the wing on a flat surface with a cocktail stick under each wing tip to keep a mm of dihedral.
Do not add the U/C until the top wing is on, as otherwise it may foul the cabane strut attachment and weaken it or cause fit failure.
Even if you are covering the engine, you MUST complete the full engine support frame to make it rigid, as it seats a cabane strut. You cannot rely on the cowling for that and fitting the cowling is fiddly as the attachments are realistically frail.
You must fit the engine bearers correctly and then ensure that the chin cowling is fitted as the first cowling cover, ensuring it engages fully with the engine bearers, otherwise it sits 2mm too far forward, ruining cowling fit and leaving a gap in front of the oil sump cover.
So endeth the lesson. Its not put me off. I will do the next with Aviattic lozenge in the 7 Swabians scheme. Do try the lifelike decals too they are very good.
I found I did it better on the Snipe second time around too....
