Yesterday some more progress.
Finished the "office" and closed the fuselage. There are no pics of the office cage because of a lucky strike (no tobacco involved
): while I was dry fitting the office, not fully cured yet, into the fuselage it happened that everything clicked into its proper place without too much trouble and the subsequent check with the engine cowling was very good too. Glue was soon at hand and the fuselage went together with no fuss.
Here are some pics taken while the glue was still setting. The office cage is taken from down under.
Fitting is generally good/very good. Only the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat had to be filed to half of its original thickness (traces still visible on the second pic) to allow the seat to seat properly
(and I guess that's why the call it a seat
- no need to get my coat, it's warm enough today
).
Some touch ups still needed.
The seatbelts are the only "add-on" from the
Tamiya Spit Mk1 PE set, duly photocopied, reinforced with masking tape on its back, hand painted with pastels and some very thinned
Tamiya Sand Yellow, cut and finally superglued to the seat; not a masterpiece but considering that the canopy can only be in the closed position it will do.
Thank you for following my build.