Good morning guys, A bit more time for modelling so i am trying... Continuing my work next project was to replicate correctly the throttle quadrant, as Aires had the early one. So i modified the one Part gives (this one is also wrong i think) and finally i placed it to position.
Next it was stick time, i added some details and i also replicated the control locking mechanism.
Then a quick dry fit...
Afterwards i replicated the manual hydraulic pump, off she goes...
The position of the pump showed me that i had incorrectly opened the fuel gauges holes on the floor, so i closed the wrong ones and i opened new.
I was very happy with the progress until a question i made to Britmodeller changed some things...
''Only aircraft in the serial blocks FB350-399, HB900-961 and KH421-640 had the rear fuselage tank fitted, aircraft in the serial blocks FB100-124, FB125-349 and FX and FZ serialed aircraft did not have fuselage tanks and therefore no red filler cap.''
That means that the aircraft i am building had no fuselage tank installed, so i had to modify the Aires resin...
My effort will be to replicate this, but this will be done later...
It was time for the landing gear, the kit provides this
So i tried to make them a bit better...
I put the plumping for the brakes and i painted them with Alclad
Later on i placed the missing part of the plumping, which was some kind of plastic
Thats all for now gents, hope to be able to post progress soon, thanks for looking
John