Sopwith Pup RNAS
Parts off the sprues and cleaned
Engine painted
Seat and belts done
Ignition wiring
Started painting wooden areas
Cockpit details started
cockpit details
more cockpit details
and some more
ammo on the sides
ammo stack
instrument panel dry fitted
I read from some builds that after putting in the cockpit in the fuselage, the fuse may not fit the lower wing. After some analysis, the cockpit floor has a semicircular cutout that corresponds to a semicircular notch on the bottom wing. In fact, you can fit the cockpit on top of the wing, without the fuselage with no issues
Here are the notches on the cockpit floor
Here, I dry fitted the completed cockpit on the wing bottom, then dry fitted the fuselage halves after. as you can see, the fit is perfect
even on the rear
and the cockpit floor sits flush to the wing bottom
To help align everything perfectly, glue only the rear cockpit brace to the notch on the fuselage half, THEN, dry fit it to the lower wing and wait for it to dry. DONT GLUE THE CURVED SUPPORT BRACES ON THE FUSELAGE!
These are the curved support braces. Don't glue them to the fuselage. I've seen that if you do, they can throw everything out of alignment.
Decals on the instrument panel on
Dry fitted on the cockpit
Fuselage and wings now painted
Believe it or not, this is just dry fitted no glue.
IP glued on. Now to close everything up
Turtle deck on, and the subassemblies now being carefully glued together
Firewall and engine attached to the fuselage
Test fit of the cowling
decals
decals on the fuselage
dry fit of the horizontal stabilizer
landing strut built up
WNW decals are really amazing
Even on a matte surface, after sealing them, they look like painted on
More decal work on the wing struts, landing gear struts….
And wheels
Roundels are on!
Landing gear struts and wing struts on!
Rigging…
Rigging…
Rigging…
Rigging…
Rigging…
Rigging…
Rigging…
And more rigging…
Lewis MG…
Wheel, engine, prop, cowling on.
Comments
20 3 April 2022, 18:49
Rolf-Dieter NordmannLooks really great, just caught a DFW C.V from Wingnut wings when you were already bankrupt what a great model
11 April 2022, 15:25
bughunterNice!
A hint for the rigging: the blue line in WNW are aerodynamic RAF wires has _NO_ turnbuckles, but terminals.
30 April 2022, 12:55
RODOLFO NATHANIEL ANGELESThanks bughunter for the hint. Yes I know that the wires are aerodynamic, but decided to use silver round monofilament for the rigging
5 May 2022, 11:40
Lochsa RiverSo many great many models tonight!! This is number four....and a great Newsfeed followed....
....clean rigging....just fun to look at....
12 May 2022, 08:52
