Havent posted an update for a little while as I've been busy getting ready for her first outing this year.
Done a lot more polishing with my new polisher ...duh !... and things were going well until.... I clipped a skin-pin with the lambswool polishing head. OMFG !!!.
It looked like Jack the Ripper had gotten into bestiality. I tell ya, there was bits of wool everywhere, on the floor, on the shelves, in the corners, on the roof. I'm still hoovering up bits of dead sheep nearly three weeks after the horrific accident !!
Then I couldn't put it off any more, I started on the windshield assembly... SHOCK / HORROR / PROBE
As usual, I dont have the correct profile or thickness materiel so I'm using what materiel I have in stock.
Had to resort to the old fashioned method of loads of hacksaw cuts to get the angle ali to bend, then place supporting strips of ali behind so that I could then rivet it all together and finally fill the cuts with chemical metal. followed all this with a quick spray of primer and then a satin black on the inside.
Its not 100 percent accurate...yet... as I still have some tweaking to do before I am happy and can start looking at getting the glass / perspex side of stuff sorted out.
The main bug-bear I have at the moment, is that the ali that bends up and around the base of the windshield was too thick...at 2mm !... to bend , so it was a quick trip to the metal suppliers and get a sheet of 1.2mm ali. at least I can bend this stuff hopefully around the curves I will need to. More work to follwo here.
I also ordered a stencil of the data plate that sits on the left hand side of the fuselage just behind the firewall. This arrived today and will be put in place before the end of the month.
I hope the piccies come out in the right order, if not I'm sorry as I cant seem to be able to place them in order on the attachments manager like I used to be able to do.
I've included a few shots of her at Cockpitfest this weekend. And the good news is I've re-established contact with Tom...the gent who I mentioned last year...who will be doing my nose art. Yippee !!!
And on the plus side, I was able to mount my gunsight for the first time !