The little bird finally has legs. It's taken some time to get the section ready for assembly since I'm doing both the gear and the fairings at the same time and need to plan it all out. Now that it's on it's gear I don't foresee it back on the saw horses unless absolutely necessary. I need the wheels off the cart for the wing rack so I can do the last bit of finishing on the wings and rig the flaperons. Once that's done the wings and tail will go off to paint and over to the hanger for storage. Of all the parts only three big sections after I finish up the gear - tank, canopy and cowl. Then we buy the engine.
It's nice to see it on the gear as it really looks like an airplane now. The down side is there are more and more places where you have to skip around to streamline the process and not take stuff apart to finish up the things you couldn't do earlier. I've marked the manual extensively on the stuff that needs to be revisited but I think about it a lot. There's still quite a bit of hardware from the fuselage kit but I'm hopeful it will just disappear as I work through the book.
It's nice to see it on the gear as it really looks like an airplane now. The down side is there are more and more places where you have to skip around to streamline the process and not take stuff apart to finish up the things you couldn't do earlier. I've marked the manual extensively on the stuff that needs to be revisited but I think about it a lot. There's still quite a bit of hardware from the fuselage kit but I'm hopeful it will just disappear as I work through the book.
