It is almost a straight out-of-the-box build. The only changes I made were the removable cowl, incidence locating pins for the wings (like on the new kits), moving the motor peg forward one bay, a lighter tail wheel, and an all colored tissue covering job. There will be no paint on the model.
I put a former at the front of the cowl with some blocking around the thrust button hole between the former and the front of the cowl. There are four braces extending back to a former at the rear of the cowl. A box key locates the cowl.
The cowl former and the front of former B1 are covered with 1/64" plywood and the cowl is retained by a couple of 1/8" diameter rare earth magnets.
Checking to make sure that everything lines up before covering provided a chance to do the almost obligatory "bones" shot.
The frame is covered, wet, with Esaki tissue. I have quite a supply of yellow and blue tissue because I like to do models of 1930's Army Air Corps planes. The color scheme is right off the box cover. The bottom of the fuselage is covered with blue tissue. The blue side flashes will be applied dry as trim after the fuselage has it's first coat of Krylon because if applied wet, it will turn green with the yellow tissue under it. Then the fuselage will get another Krylon misting. Yes, the struts are not painted but covered with tissue.
Here is the plastic cowl being covered with a single piece of wet Esaki tissue pulled and stretched around it. The excess is trimmed after it dries.
Anyway, back to work. I'll post the finished pictures before I fly it on Sunday morning.
