To continue on with assembling the fuselage, the next step is to place the F4 former. Put this in the fuselage the same way that you did F3. Slightly spread the fuselage apart, put the F4 inside the fuselage, rotate it in place, and then place rubberband around the fuselage to hold it in place (pictures #1 and #2). Now do the same thing with F5 former (pictures #3 and #4), and with F6 former (pictures #5 and #6). Now you should have all of the fuselage formers in place, as well as having rubberbands holding the fuselage together. At this point you can take off the tape that you placed to hold the ends of the fuselage together (pictures #7 and #8). You fuselage should now look like picture #9. If you look carefully at picture #10 you can see that the formers and the fuselage are crooked. Don't worry about it at this point. This will straighten out as we place more of the fuselage components in place as we build the fuselage.

Pictures
1. Insert former F4 in place.
2. Secure F4 in place with rubberbands.
3. Insert former F5 in place.
4. Secure F5 in place with rubberbands.
5. Insert former F6 in place.
6. Secure F6 in place with rubberbands.
7. Removing tape from the tail end of the fuselage.
8. Fuselage ends free after tape has been removed.
9. Fuselage with rubberbands holding it together.
10. Fuselage may be a little crooked at this stage. This will be corrected later in the build.

Until next time

Ken