The latest and some pictures from the earlier entry.

Front gear door was hinged using the 'alternative' BVM addendum, which differs from the original in that flat pin hinges are used as oppose to hinge arms like the ones used on the air brakes. The reason for this is that the original system permitted the gear doors to open onto the gun locations, which can cause a leverage resulting in a hinge failure. The modified system prevents this over opening, and looks to provide a stronger hinge assembly (IMO!)

Now that my supply of syringes is back to capacity the aeropoxy is being added to the areas requiring it!

Cleaned up the forward hatch area, and trimmed the cover to fit, set the fixing in place which I have to say is simple and looks very effective, essentially two lengths of piano wire passing through snakes which are aeropoxied into position - slide the wire in and the whole lot locks up in each of the 4 corners.

Hopefully the hardware will be with me next week so will be able to move the wings on, and start on the front landing gear installation.

In the meantime I spotted in a book on the Mig15, landing lights, what interested me more was that the front one is mounted in the top 1/3 of the air intake duct, which looks really neat, and I am going to have a stab at tackling this addition, along with the two landing lights positioned just forward of the wing landing gear inner door (one in each wing), I have contacted a UK source for model plane lights, but would welcome any contact details or suggestions from you guys as to how to achieve this.

Currently I am considering a small 14mm diameter reflector, complete with a high intensity 5mm LED which I am told will be very bright (14,000mcd) for the front landing light a 12mm reflector and 3mm LEDs. Navigation lights will be as per full scale on wing tips and trailing end of fin fairing.

A link to the site I have looked at is [link]http://www.lightingforaeromodellers.co.uk[/link]

Pics below.

Marc.