Pulled out the wings and began work on dressing up the doors, wheels, and tubes. One of the things I noticed right away when I first started handling the wings was how heavy they felt. So, I weighed them and each wing without the servos is ~8.4lbs. Started with painting the inside gear doors white. Needed to disassemble all the doors, which was not too hard. On mine the stock wheel rims and hubs come all silver, so I painted it to match the full scale. I'm reluctant to paint the struts white at this time as I didn't want to screwup the alignment from the factory and brake wire routing, plus there are a lot of set screws around the retract unit. Maybe after some successful flights I will revisit painting them. Added a little white on each of the wing tip tubes as well (left one for counterbalance while the right one a functional pitot like the full scale). Plan to start work on installing the servos next.


Stock main gear assembly

Stock main gear - outside view

Stock main wheel and strut w/o door covers

Gear door - painted

Strut support rod

Strut with wheel removed

Main wheel with brake disk - painted (outside view)

Main wheel - painted (inside view)

10mm nut driver

Close up - left main

Close up - left main

Close up - installed strut support rod

Both main gear deployed

Wing detail

Right aileron and note

Pitot tube - right wing