I have a couple of things tonight. I had to make a new R/H nose support to clear my muffler. The first photo shows the joggle that offsets the forward piece by 1/4 inch. It is made from the original ends with a piece of scrap ply in the center. It is glued up with gorrilla glue and one layer of .5 oz glass cloth and epoxy. The joggle neccessitates moving the slots outboard in the ply nose ring. The second shows how much I had to cut it down to get the clearance required. UGLY!!!

One thing I am doing with this build is to try to add some scale details. At least "scale like". Perhaps the word should be scale illusions. The real plane has fairings at the gear legs and struts so I have been experimenting with recreating them. The pictures show my first attemts at the gear fairings. They started as 3/8 th stick carved and sanded to triangle stock. Then an inside radius was carved. You can see one installed in the last shot. It is not scale and it will not stay, but it is close to what I am loosing for. I won't opt for glass fairings but I think I can approximate the scale look with a little more work. I built these two in about a half an hour without my documentation photos. What do you think? Am I on the right track?