The blustery weather here for the past several days provided time to get serious about completing the final touches on this Build. Progress was good with only a few minor bumps along the road to completion.
The Rudder got installed and then the rigging of the flight control cables completed.
Next the coolant line and vent stack were added to the upper wing overflow tank location using copper wire and a 0.5mm tube respectively:
The landing gear was touched up and the bungees shaded a bit with very thin Winsor Newton "Lampblack" Oils:
The Ailerons were then mounted using the earlier installed stainless wire pins and then the control cables rigged. At this point fat, stupid, and uncontrolled fingers entered the equation and I had to replace several of the runs. With the addition of the two lower wing to nose cowling wires, the prop, and an hour of touch ups she was complete.
She's not without her share of "warts" as we label some less then perfect components, I'm still in pursuit of that perfect model we all hope for and rarely achieve. Several of the turn buckles are out of alignment with the lines a bit; I did redo a few however I found the Gas Patch buckles don't tolerate bending and when they break it's near impossible to get a clean fix!
So here's the completed Build this morning:
I'll take some photos later for the Completed Models section. A very nice kit and a pleasure to build, exactly in line with Wingnut Wings outstanding quality!
Cheers,
Lance
