Hello,

here are the pics of my mods:

1. Here you can see the lousy glued hardwood block, one cracked out, when i placed the model carefully on the floor, imagine that!!!
But it was the start to do the modifications:



2. Here´s my added hardwood block to fix my additional brace (Graupner tube 8mm outer/7mm inner diameter, strong, but very light). The hardwood block is fitted without gap to get as much contact to the surrounding wood:



3. The upper joint with the Seagull strut:



4. I used the old cutout film to close the hole again, with tesa, not perfect, but a fast fix:



5. The upper part of the pant, note the cutout for the wheel fork (not mounted in the picture):



6. the other side:



7. the wheel fork with the lower pant. I glued two plywood blocks per pant and fixed them to the fork with 3M Dual Lock, great stuff, almost free adjustments possible and the pants can come loose in accident case. Note:i had to rebent the forks to fit with the HKGee Bee pants, the Seagull pants are wider.



8. Wheel fitted. Because of our grass airfield i decided to let the wheel "look more out of the pants", sorry, i don´t know how to explain that better...



9. Complete assembly. If you look close, you can see the cut outs of the upper pants...i can live with that... Note:I have not glued the wings together and i am sure it is not necessary because of the aluminium link tube.



Thats it. 90% i would say, because i think it would be necessary to stiffen up the struts laterally with wires.

Wolfgang