Specifications

Lay your supplied Cable Wire on Plan Sheet 1 and cut the Cable

Wire for the Elevator to length.

On the Elevator Cable Wire, solder a Solder Link to the rear end,

and install it into the Elevator Cable Sleeve.

With thin CA, glue in the Fuselage Floor making certain that the

hole behind F10 is on the port side. (Do not apply glue to the

bottom of F4 and F5A in a way that would seal the lateral laser-

cut lines in the Fuselage Floor. These pre-cut slits must be kept

clear of glue for a later building step.)

Tape into position both small Fuselage Sidewalls – Parts D.

Dryfit F12. Tape across the ends of the Sidewalls so that they

hug F12.

Dryfit the Fuselage Top Sheet. Tape the Top Sheet down against

the Sidewalls, making sure no tape nears the Fuselage Floor as

that area will soon be sanded.

Connecting the Fuselage Sidewalls to the Floor

Use a sanding block to sand to 45 degrees, the entire length of

both the lower edge of each Fuselage Sidewall and the edges of

the Fuselage Floor.

Cut strips of

16" sheeting, about 2" wide. Cut enough to span the

length of the plane, twice. These strips will cover the section

between the Fuselage Sidewalls and the Floor.

Tack the stripping with thin CA, near F5 to start. Tack your way

both forward and backward. This will help you avoid any potential

buckling. Be careful not to get glue on F12 as it will need to be

removed later when installing the Tail. Also, make sure to keep

F12 vertical while gluing - it sets the tail strait.

In order to attach the second corner strip, use a sanding block to

slowly sand back the lower, rear corner of the first strip. Stop

when the second strip will connect cleanly with the Floor,

Sidewall and newly sanded first strip. See Figure 38.

Using thin CA, glue on the second strip of balsa, employing the

same method as you did for the first strip. Do not apply strips to

the top corners yet.

Carefully trim back the excess

16" material and then use a

sanding block to sand the edges of the strips to match the angle

of the Floor/Sidewalls as shown in Figure 39.

Some modellers can skilfully use a palm sander to speed this up.

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Fig 38

Fig 39