Sethhunter

This weekend, I mostly finished the top and bottom hatches, and poked a big hole through the middle (on purpose). Just to start getting a "triplane" feel, I blocked the middle wing in the hole to see how it looks. The lower hatch, which blends into the fairings, just took a bit of patience and lots of bits of balsa, and various sanding devices (mostly a cardboard tube with sandpaper wrapped around it).

I suppose it's worth repeating my earlier disclaimer. The lower wing fairing is not scale. It's bumped on the bottom to contain the wing dowels, and of course the original did not have a continuous wing. I believe it was more DIIIa-like; panels that end at the fuselage, and the fairings sweep down and out of the wing roots - the fuselage should be visible between the fairings. I made these changes for the sake of getting the prototype up and flying by opening day at our field (also the builder's contest day!). I'll fix that on the next one, if I get that far.

I thought my fellow Pfalz fans would appreciate the bottle in the middle - no, I don't drink while building - look closely at the label! A gift from a very kind, fellow modeler, from the Pfalz region in Germany . Many thanks, Andreas!