I just got back from dinner so I will add comments to the photos in my last post. I am not yet compleatly confidant with this upload process so we will take it slow.

The photos obviously loaded out of sequence but they dont need a lot of commentary. The first shot is of the nearly completed fuselage structure. As you can see there are no sticks. The tube structure is simulated by using sheets at various elevations rather than the sticks often used for fabric airframes. This goes together very quickly after the forward section is setup. As I said in the prior post most of the glue goes on at this stage.

Second Shot: What can I say? Parts! Not that many for a unit of this size.
Third Shot: This is about 20 min. into construction. Both sidwalls have been tacked to the formers and the floor plates are going in.
Forth Shot: The wing bolts go thru a ply doubler block right behind the windshield. I used Titebond and clamped it after aligning the bolt holes.
By the way, to give you an idea of size, the ruler in some of the shots is 15 inches.

New Shots. The first is the tail feathers after the joining operation. They are cut from 1/16 sheet and then sheeted cross grain again with 1/16. The rudder,vert stab and elevators are each made from 2 pieces and the horizontal stab comes in 3 parts. The Ply wing tip bow is to the right of the fin/rudder assy.

The last shot is the stack of 1/4" parts that become the nose. Each has a 1/4 square indexing hole so you can stack them on a 1/4" stick. once stacked they are self aligning. CA the stack and start sanding. Each part is cut so that when you sand off the lazer char (black line) you have the correct contour. Lots better than the 4"x3" balsa block of yesteryear.


More later.