Bughunter

I need to hurry up to close the fuselage!

Here are the last cockpit parts.

Sorry, the uploaded picture order was inverted on my mobile phone :(

Pic 1 For soldering it is important to hold parts in place, without movements. I use shafts of little HSS drills to hold pieces of brass pipes. The paper adjusts the different thickness.

Pic 2 Adding another piece on top. Tweezers cool the existing solder joints.

Pic 3 The soldered control stick, in comparison to the kit part. I hate to clean up those parts and here we have a heavy mould displacement so it is not possible to get round parts.

Pic 4 Socket from kit stick. Wrap-around stretched sprue on handle.

Pic 5 The main reason to spend this effort: When you look into the cockpit from above, you can see the open pipes, just like on the original.

Pic 6 The rudder pedal is a kit part. I only painted it.

Pic 7 The rudder and stick are mounted on the front part. The 0.17mm drill was used for openings for the control wires. Again 0.3mm brass turnbuckles.

Pic 8 With an oil wash the assembly is ready to be mounted.

Pic 9 The front was snapped between the fuselage halves and secured with glue. What a busy cockpit!

Pic 10 With adding the cockpit cover the fuselage is completely closed!