Manstein's revenge
Try to get a few shots with my agent--I mean your cat--in the background...
Cats, err agents, nowhere to be found. They did however tag me with a tracking device of some kind...
Actually, it looked to me like a scrap of styrene stuck to my elbow for about an hour before I realized it was there. CA strikes again. OK, real pics now.
I worked first from the outermost rib. Attaching to the rib with superglue, pressing it to conform to the shape as it dried. Then I tacked it to the wing tip area, using enough tension to add some dihedral.
Working from the outside in - I tacked the next section of styrene to the next rib in to get the right contour, let it cure, then tacked it to the panel from earlier. (oops, this shot doesn't show panel 1 and panel 2 connected. It seemed to keep a pretty good compound curve though.)
Cockpit area.... Manny, this particular sample of the Horten wing was built at the Messerschmitt plant at Regensburg, so some panel sections were "borrowed" from the boys at the Me163 production line.... yeah, that's what happened! the section behind the cockpit can be used for extra fuel in my long-range version. (FYI, these are spares from two Academy Me163 kits, they give you the option of the standard bird as well as the twin cockpit "trainer" version. So no matter which way you build the kit you end up with a spare upper fuselage section.)
Removing the stub that connects to the stabilizer...
And a donation of the nose from a second leftover body - this will be blended into the upper section.
