Happy New Year to all SMN readers!
Steady progress on the Bulldog interrupted by Christmas and New Year. I am afraid that the room I use as my studio was occupied over the Christmas period so there is a black hole on the fuselage assembly – apologies.
Fuselage Instructions
Page 6 No photographs of this stage but really not complicated. I painted the guns black and dry brushed them with silver/brown mix and sprayed transparent Tamiya Blue – waste of time you can’t see them at all!!
Page 7 Most of this page is for later although the dihedral is important to know. I am presuming that the dihedral for the upper wings is the same as the lower one. I strengthened the flap joins by drilling and inserting brass wire to all of them (just about where the arrows on the instructions are.
Page 8 – The fuselage joins as shown; some slight easing of the cockpit insert was needed after which it slipped together nicely – there are locating pins on the fuselage mouldings.
Page 9 – Everything on this page will be installed after painting and assembling the wings – I can’t see how I could avoid knocking it all off during handling otherwise.
Page 10 – Most of this is complete I was able to photograph again at this stage.