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Here I've threaded the rear rigging line through the wing and the rear hole on the outside of the spat. This line terminates here. Pin the line taught while you glue the thread inside the spat, cut it off when dry.

Rigging Can't mount the wheels just yet, since they would be in the way of the rigging lines that pass through the spats. So we'll do the rigging next. This first picture shows a handy tool I fashioned from thin wire. Poke the thread into the hole a ways and hook the end with the tool to...

And painted, then put on the "hub cap" parts.

Wheel after sanding:

Continuing with the wheels Now that the laminated wheel disks are dry, they have to be sanded to shape and size. Mine were too large in diameter and needed to be cut down a bit to fit into the spats. Shown here are the wheel disks mounted on a dremel cutoff wheel mandrel, which happens to...

Thanks Bengt! Long time no chat! I have not been spending much time hanging out in the Space related forums lately. Perhaps once Greelt P. releases his Saturn V first stage it'll be time to make another foray into that category! Rick

Thanks! It helps to have a camera with a good macro mode and some good light to go with it!

I think the next step here would be to put the rigging lines on the wing/landing gear/fuselage, but I need to wait to let those legs dry completely. So off to the wheels. Here the parts are rough cut. I did not like how tight these wheels were going to fit width wise, so I'm only going to use...

Then we glue the whole mess to the bottom of the wing:

Lower fairing parts glued on, and upper ones prepared. I imagine there are several ways to approach this, I decided to tack the back ends of the upper fairings together first and slip them on. I then put some glue on the upper part of the strut and slid the fairings up to the right position.

Struts stuck onto the Pants/Spats/Thingies:

Sort of like building a "Little Wing" (any Clapton fans out there? ;) ):

Getting ready to put the skin around the legs, I see that the "ribs" are too long. Had to trim them down a bit.

The laminated parts make up the framework:

Landing gear strut parts

And the completed assemblies.

Here are the bits rolled and/or glued into shape, ready for piecing together.

Landing Gear On to the legs! I decided to tackle the part of this plane I've been dreading the most next, those wheel covering up thingies. What's the real name - Pants? Spats? Anyway here are the parts. For these parts and the cowl parts I thought since the inside was partially visible...

Last Wing Bit Ok, back to it then. The last bit of wing work is to put on the fairings. I have to say this is one of my least favorite things to do. I imagine this is also a designers nightmare, getting these parts anywhere near right. This one is pretty good, but unless you're...

FYI, I hid the link to download this model in the first post of this thread. :grin: