Spent the morning pottering around in the workshop. I put together and painted the engine sub assembly and applied a timber finish to the prop. Also fitted the control column to the pit and lastly fitted the rigging cables to the open fuselage halves 9no photos of that).
Here are a few shots ....
This is a shot of the control column, taken from aft port side on. I notice that it needs a wee bit more touch up, shouldn't be a problem. The kit supplied control column seems very chunky, but I think the proportions are accurate
Control column taken forward quarter port side . I wish now I had used thred instead of rod for the foot controls. too late now......
timber finish applied to the propeller. Apologies for the poor focus. Generally happy with the timer finish. Need to do the metal centre (gunmetal or black, not sure). Also will apply a clear gloss finish probably using the AB. I'm happy with this element so far.
The kit supplied engine assembled and attached to the firewall. ive made no changes to the kit, just painted it in gunmetal . For the front plate I applied a dull aluminium base coat and then applied the gunmetal as a top coat. I drybrushed the cylinder cooling fins to give a very faint silver look and then used a silver marker pen to just spot a couple of things on the fuel injection system
shots of the complete engine assembly with the unpainted cowl just placed over it to see roughly how the thing might look
At this point ive reach a bit of an impasse as I wait for the after market parts to arrive.
While I wait I might go back and redo that pulsometer. There will be a lot of mucking around with that , but it is just too out of scale I think to be accepted