Rolling along now... from this angle, before the wings are mounted, you can get a sense of how drastic the bulge is over the DB605 engine.
I made up a tab from brass sheeting to mount the aerial on the rudder. This tab will be cut to size when the time comes but right now it is easier to handle (and not lose) as a overly long piece. I am going to re-think the spring on the antenna mast as I've been told that there was none.
The wing pitot tube has been replaced with pieces of brass tubing.
Time to attach the wings. I've decided to mount the upper wings first so that I can get a good flush fit at the wing root join, which is always a tough one to clean up.
The joint here is not the most positive so I elected to mount the bottom of the wing on the port side after the top of the wing attachment was solid. The bottom of the wings are presented in halves like the top so the order was port top, port bottom, starboard top, starboard bottom.
There are some gaps at the bottom that need to be filled and faired in. You can see a shim that I used to bridge some of the gap.
A few days will probably be spent cleaning up that joint as well as the seams between the wing tops and bottoms.
The wing root joint will be cleaned up too and then the joint re-scribed.