RE: Aviatik DI build
A little more progress. I am staining as I go so as to avoid problems with glue later. The stain is water based and seems to glue OK. I had intended to put the cabane mounts right across the fuselage but the canister gets in the way of the front one. A pair of 1/8" ply arcs gusset the mounts to the fuselage sides and reinforce this area. I was sold on using the canister after seeing a (1/3?) scale DH4 at Rhinebeck last month. The builder had a twin cylinder 100cc engine with a pair of canisters and it sounded SO much better than the usual bark.
Martin