Dayum!  Seriously very cool.  That's a great start!

Gary

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I'm getting an error message on your last three photos but the upper ones look incredible! A lot of work but the end results are going to be spectacular! 

Owly Chit ! !

 Whatta bunch of closework .  T.B.

Sorry about the double pics.  I tried the get links option and ended with double pics.   Anyhow,  I completed some of the pilots area today.  

Tanker - Builder

Owly Chit ! !

 Whatta bunch of closework .  T.B.

 

That's beautiful! 

Always a delight seeing WIP pics of projects I probably will never be able to put together.  Just beautiful!

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Wow! This IS a cool project! Nice work so far and nice photos for your WIP. 

Max

More than your average project, looking foward to it's completion.

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I'm using the thread that came with the kit.  Most tightened up once I took it off the jig. Some of them have a little slack but I'm going to live with it.   I'm using thick and thin super glue.  I finished the landing skid and wing rigging tonight. The last is the rudder and elevator assembly.  They also include the rail and rollers in the kit.  I just have to find somewhere to put the thing in my office.  It's too big to put on my desk.  I've thought of building it it's own stand using a spiral spendle and two 10 or 12 inch flat circles.  

First ;

 As an old Marine , Thank you for serving ! Now to the Plane .What are you talking about ? All those widdle biddy pieces will make one BIG plane .I wuv widdle biddy pieces . LOL.LOL. Dayumned nice job so far . As I said the first thing anyone is going to say when they see it is Owly Chit ! ! I have to ask though ,Did the jig come with the kit ? T.B.

Tanker - Builder

First ;

 As an old Marine , Thank you for serving ! Now to the Plane .What are you talking about ? All those widdle biddy pieces will make one BIG plane .I wuv widdle biddy pieces . LOL.LOL. Dayumned nice job so far . As I said the first thing anyone is going to say when they see it is Owly Chit ! ! T.B.

 

Afghanvet

  and then touch it. Haha.   The thing is so fragile that it will break if you look at it wrong!!

 

 

I taught 7th and 8th grade Social Studies for 17 years.  I sometimes took finished builds to school.  Some of the students were really interested, and after being cautioned to look but not touch, they would even "police" each other.

Well, I transported the models in an old VCR box.  One day while leaving with the box in both hands, I was approached by a custodian. He was a simple-minded guy and basically harmless, until he said, "Hey, are you stealing that VCR?  What do you have in there?"   

I was saying "Don't Ricky!  Don't stick your hand in there!"  TOO LATE!  His pudgy hand was between the box flaps and had crushed the Monogram Type-Zero.  Both the main gear were splayed out, but thankfully nothing worse.  Ricky got a pretty good "blessing out" at that point.  Junior high kids had been no problem with the models, adults?  Well, not so much...

Gary

Splendid work. My brother and I built one of those in 1:1 scale in 1903.

This is just way too cool, must have more!!!

Small bit of  advice: You may want to run the thread through a block of beeswax like sailing ship modelers do.  It's easy to do and will not affect C/A adhesion. This will not only preserve the thread but keep it from "Fuzzing" and also in the future you will be able to just blow any dust off, which would stick to untreated thread. 

I learned this after I built a smaller Wright Flyer model and the thread is now all fuzzed. 

It gets awfully windy on the Outer Banks.

Wilbur Wright

Splendid work. My brother and I built one of those in 1:1 scale in 1903.

 

  That's funny right there!   A good Twilight Zone story too...

Gary