Didn't really have a lot of time lately, but today was a somewhat unexpected day off (without the kids around!) and I managed to get a few hours of bench time on the Fokker
Though mainly small bits and pieces got built, brushpainted and assembled, as I do my airbrush painting in the shed which was too cold and cluttered/ Afterwards, I spent an hour cleaning it out so hopefully I can paint more stuff tomorrow.
The interiour dryfitted again, both to show all the little imprivements and make sure it still fits the fuselage:
On the right (left in the picture) I added the radiator shutter lever with wire, on the left I added the three rods for the throttle, ignition adjuster and altitude compensator. The latter two to into nowehere, the first onto the large lever thing on the far right of the picture. The top of that will be connected to the carburettor when the engine is installed.
The lever is made from stretched sprue sanded and carved into shape, the rods are straightened steel wire that comes with garbage bags here, stripped of the plastic covering. It's 0,3mm, where my thinnest brass wire is 0,5 and looked to beefy. There is a great photo in the instructions, (I could spend days adding all the stuff you see there!) that shows how and where things seem to connect.
Less visibible, but I wired up the control stick with throttle and trigger wires and added a tape clamp. Some chipping and weathering was also added, I'll post some more of it once the entire interiour is together.
I also painted some gloss varnish + frame colour over the wrapped lozenge decals to tone them down a bit.
I also added some pieces of sprue to glue the control wires straight and true through the openings under the seat:
And now that I made the radiator shutter control lever, it obviously needs something to connect to... as Greim's machine flew without cowlings I figured this would be quite visible. I cut the shape from a drawing in the Windsock Fokker Anthology 1 from 0,25mm plastic card and added a tiny triangle. I also added a piece of the wire I used for the engine controls as a hinge point.
If you look closely at the radiator parts, I would not be surprised to see this shutter included in one of the "Special Editions", should these ever materialise. There are tiny holes where the hinge is located.
Less visible due to the angle, but I also added tiny tabs for the (also missing) radiator supports.
Hopefully some paint and diverse varnishes (gloss/satin for metal and seat, flat and satin for the wood, etc etc) and then the interiour can (finally!!) go together when dry!
Jeroen
