I decided that I didn't like the 1/3 scale Balsa USA's Sopwith Pup lack of scale detailing and construction so I made some modifications.
Years ago I purchased a new kit but never built it. Then back in February 2014 a friend gave me a 1/3 scale B.USA Pup that he bought at the Toledo Weak Signals show a couple of years ago. It had been built but it wasn't a great construction job and over the years that it had sat it slowly deteriorated. That was the state in which I received it. At first I started to shore it up and make repairs to it but construction was so bad that I could just apply a little pressure and the formers would just pop off with little resistance. Over the months of playing with it I became more dissatisfied with the air frame and I decided to modify it to make it close to scale with a scale cockpit.
I will be posting pictures here and I will attempt to catch up to where I am now.
Unfortunately I didn't take a lot of early pictures but here is what I have:
I had already removed the thin plywood decking over the cockpit and forward section of the fuselage. You can just make out the sheeting on the sides of the fuse.