The fuselage was assembled in about an hour, and this was only to wait for the
glue to dry. The engineering in this kit is something to enjoy and the bits fit
execelently.Mostly.
Don't make the same mistake as me: When you fit the fuselage formers the front
ones are marked on the wood, but the rear one isn't. With no plan all you can do
is guess where this should go. I guessed wrong and when I fitted the rear
fuselage sheeting it had a slight curve in it. So to make it fit I had to take
some wood off from the bottom, this was the mistake. this left me with 1/8
differece when fitting the cockpit window (wood).
I reasilse my mistake when talking to the designer at the Nats. No problems
though i just used 1/4 wood rather than 1/8. To be honest this now give me more
wood to shape.
The instructions call for both rudder & elevator servos up front, my prefered
set up is a tail mounte elevator servo, this gives me more scpoe to position the
rudder servo in the middle to ensure even closed look runs. On the subject of
the closed loops, There are 1/32 ply doublers on the inside of the exit holes. I
said the engineering was good.
The 3rd image above shows the servo mounting hole, what you can see is the 1/8
lite-ply doubler. This also mean I can stick the wire along the bottom om the
sheeting and we'll not see a pushrod through the transparent film. I dont make
it up you know.
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