Tommie,

glad you enjoyed the Deception thread. I'm about to modify the design to add a 1/32 balsa doubler in the wing saddle area. One wonders what 1/32 balsa doublers do beside add apparently useless weight... The interesting thing is that they create a glue wall of sorts which stiffens the sides without leaving a mess for the fuse interior surface. Ideally one would add a paper thin section of carbon fibre mat in the sandwich but that is getting fancy. In any case, one is then able to remove the added weight, and then some, by drilling out the fuse and leave a stronger structure behind than the original. At least that's the concept.

All the HOB designs with the 1/64 ply doubler can also be modified this way. It's much easier to keep the weight reduction symmetrical about the sides if you mark one side with the holes to be drilled out and then Dremel the holes through the two sides with them taped together. The only thing to watch out for with this technique is to make sure you don't create holes where you may need wood for things like servo rails and/or might want to hold the plane (e.g., in the nose and tail area). One also wants to be careful in the tail boom to insure it's not substantially weakened. A nice in flight snap can rip your tail off!

In short though, it's essentially creating a modern lite ply like interlocking structure on an old design concept. The first photo shows the locations of the radio gear in the drilled out FW-190. Servo tape, rather than rails, is used to attach micro servos flat to the fuse top. In the T-6 I installed the radio gear as shown in the other couple of shots (the plane actually uses a Spektrum Rx now rather than the JR FM shown. FG pushrods are used).

Sorry about the dissertation, I kind of find this sort of stuff fun!

BTW, I would recommend mixing up the construction sequence and deviating from what might be shown in the manual. The HOB manuals, while good, don't necessarily always tell you to build what's needed next. I'd recommend building in the following sequence:
[ul][*] Empennage[*] Wing[*] Fuse
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I also wouldn't finish joining the wing until your fuse is built (you can tape the wing together if needed) so you can adjust either if necessary so they mate well.

Looking forward to your build!

David.