I finally got the rigging holes drilled yesterday - and broke 9 of the 10 new drill bits in the process! What was really frustrating was that I completed the top wing without breaking a single one, then they seemed to break just by touching them to the surface, before I even started to drill!
Anyway, job done, and time to order more bits.....
So with that out of the way I could start to add some of the detail that needs to be in place before the top wing goes on. So today my first job was painting the struts...
all done!
Then I spent the rest of the afternoon adding details. A windscreen was fashioned from a small corner of a plastic egg carton, elevator control horns, Vickers mounts, carb intakes, oil filler - all done from bits of plastic rod and strip, except the carb intakes which are .4mm aluminium tube. Aldis sight is in the process of being made from .020" brass tube and a small piece of drilled out .030" plastic rod slid over one end. Once that is added I think I can get the top wing on....
The other little bonus that arrived in the post today was a set of my newly designed 9mm wheels. I have done these to replace the hard to find Aeroclub items and they will be made available soon. I am waiting to hear from TVAL as I emailed them for dimensions for various wheels. If they are too different from the ones I have done, then I'll design new ones. Maybe a set of generic wheels for German and a set for British aircraft if they are noticably different. Anyway, here's what I have so far, and I'll be using these on the Fokker D.I and D.II
Thanks for looking in!
Ian
