From this stage on it really gets exciting as the overall shape of teh apache starts to emerge and you just want to keep building .Retreive the tail frame assembly from teh start and test fit it into teh slots at the rear of the fuse ,whe happy with the placement epoxy just teh left side when looking from the rear in place .only one side is donr now so that we can get in side to place the push rods for teh tail rotor pitch and and the tail plane push rod on the right ,once the epoxy has set follow the simple instructions for placing teh rotor pitch rod into teh rear of the left side fuse and use teh required pushrod blocks to support it now move to teh right side and the tail plane pushrods ,and again use the required supports to hold it in placxee makeing sure to control rod is bent sufficiantly to move through the slots with out bindind, a note here that if you dont intend to have teh tail planes working in conjunction with the collective then this pushrod is not needed, as the more collective you feed in hte closer to level plane it becomes , but in flight the tail plane will swivel up as the forward speed increases , i intend to keep it scale so am having this connected.
With that complete its time to epoxy teh right side of teh fuse to the tail assembly and use tape to hold it all together when happy


At this point we simply sheet the bottom of the fuse ,starting from teh rear of the ply bottom to the tail the balsa provided in this kit is of very high standard so again james has done his home work ,and there is enough balsa sheeting to build this kit with a little left over , but still be conservative as you never now when you might need some more .

With this job complete locate the tail rotor tube outer housing for the flex drive to take power to teh rear rotor ,again simply follow the manual on where and how to instal this and you will be sweet ,it is held in place with some triangle stock in the middle of teh rear fuse
,once in place you need to add the small triangle stock just infront of the tail fin assembly for later shapping