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Last evening I wanted to attach the stabilizer, but there is troublesome suprise. I found out, that the drilled hole in the fin is bigger than the aluminium tube.
Now Iīm working on fibreglass tube case.

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Thereīs a result of the glassing. The tube with the fibreglass case is much better now.

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Finally some bigger job which is visible on the first moment. Stabilizer is attached. Glueing of this part is not favourite work. For fixing the right position I used rope loop with rubber part.

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Time to make cockpit. At the first time it was necessary to add balsa blocks as a supports of the side panels.
Bases of the side panels are made from the piece of thin plastic desk. Glued by Tamiya glue.

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Side panels for gunnerīs cockpit are ready for painting. Detail parts are not scale. I used some parts from my instrument panels and gunsights.

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Side panels for pilotīs part of the cockpit. Iīm going to paint the cockpit panels after weekend.

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MG barrels.

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Side panels are already painted. The grey paint is the base colour of whole cockpit and it is the same paint I used for radio station. Some other details of the cockpit will be painted outside the panels.

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Elevator control lines are fixed. For the rudder pushrod I have to make support, because the fuselage former is too close. It would be dangerous because of vibration.Side panels are almost complete.

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Side panels fitting. It looks, the are good. Now I can prepare deck. On the back side I glued supports for the deck.
Side panels are finally done. In the pictures you can see the progress.

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For long time I was thinking about the gunsight. When I found some good pictures and dimensions I decided to draw it myself. There is result.

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As usually there was a problem with the choke pushrod. Big advantage of the Roto engine is, that there is a spring on the choke flap control. We donīt need pushrod, but we can use some string to lock the choke, because the flaps is opened by throttle lever. The string goes thru small tube.

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I made some weathering on gunpods. I thought, they would look better, but I canīt say, that the job with them is done.

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Revi gunsight is done. The paint is not the finall one. I put only one layer of some grey paint because of better details shots. On the yellow surface the are not visible very well.

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Now Iīm continue with the cockpit details. Each MG barrel has two parts. Outer perforated cooler and the barrel. Both of the parts I painted separately, it would be looks better. Glued barrels I will put into the MG body.

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Base work on machine guns is done.

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Some details of the tail wheel. It looks better than the ARF one.

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I was looking for Stuka details and noticed one detail on the stab. I didnīt find any Stuka with blue lower part of the stab winglet as ESM make. Look at the attached pictures. It is evident, that whole winglet was green.
I decided to repair it.

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Gunsight Revi C/12D for my "kanonenvogel" is done.

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Some other small progress with the cockpit parts. The pilotīs armour.

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Stukaīs and Bf109īs spinner with the spiral look great, but the if you must to paint the spiral your self, it could be a painting challenge. I tried to make the similar wide stripes. I put four layers of the black paint. The result is not bad.

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Last day I found some time for work on my tank buster. Finally the engine and fuel tank are in the fuselage. I glued balsa block as a instrument panel support.

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Some progress on the cockpit. I cut the canopy and trimmed the gunner. Pilotīs canopy is sliding, so the canopy will be cutted. The material of the canopy is very thin and pliable it is necessary to strut the canopy. I made two frames. There is small edge for the canopy. Look at the detail picture.

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Front partīs frame is glued. There are some shots of the result. Canopy is not glued to the fuselage.

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Flaps and ailerons hinges glueing. All hinges must be glued in the depth. There is no mark on hinges. I used a piece of wood bar as one big pad for all hinges.