Let's twist again......***The Dance is Done***

[iggie]

These will be the victims willing participants in my Compact Diorama; both in flight

[DavidWomby]

Now that looks interesting................

David

[Stuart]

Woohoo - a very cool aircraft!

[iggie]

I am going to get started on this.....honest! Just doing my Secret Santa GB entry then will be all over this like a rash

[iggie]

Right! Battle has commenced!
Progress thus far:
Cockpits painted (for what it's worth) and fuselages buttoned up. Holes drilled for all the rigging in fuselage, tailplanes and rudders, and in upper and lower wings. These are going to be brush painted, so I will assemble them first and rig, then paint.....

[DavidWomby]

Are those 1 cm squares on your cutting board? How big (small) are these little guys?

David

[philp]

Where are the pilots? Getting them in after the fuselage is together will be interesting.

[iggie]

Where are the pilots? Getting them in after the fuselage is together will be interesting.

Funny you should say that
I'm working on the principle that once the canopy goes on nothing will be visible anyway!

[philp]

Ah, gangsta smoked glass is it.

I have one of these kits but just the Rothman's markings. Does your kit just come with the two sets of decals?

[iggie]

Ah, gangsta smoked glass is it.

I have one of these kits but just the Rothman's markings. Does your kit just come with the two sets of decals?

Yep just the sunburst ones in this boxing. I built the Rothmans one last year; the sprues were identical but it was an Amodel box.....
For such a small aircraft it goes together very nicely indeed. Ideal Bitzbau fodder actually

[iggie]

Are those 1 cm squares on your cutting board? How big (small) are these little guys?

David

Hi David,

Yep, those are 1cm squares . The wingspan is a whisker over 8cm; but they weren't the biggest airplanes even at 1:1

[iggie]

Further progress:
rigging holes pre-drilled

fully assembled (bar the prop), rigged and 1st coat of paint on both

[philp]

Like them (and see the Rothman's one in the background there).

[AndrewR]

Those look really good. How was the upper wing alignment?

[iggie]

Those look really good. How was the upper wing alignment?

It was an absolute doddle Andrew; the '4-post' front support is a one piece moulding and locates positively into the top of the fuselage, the rearward '2-post' can be set in place with liquid poly (thus retaining a bit of flex) and the wing struts also locate neatly into slots in the lower wing. Despite the diminutive size, these are probably the easiest bipes to make.....it's almost as if they were made by Carlsberg