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Finally (for now), CAREFULLY cut out the cockpit hole. It's starting to look more like an airplane and less like a bomb!

Whew. All main fuse sections done. I'm not completely happy with some of my seams, but they are what they are.

Well, here we are back at the cockpit section - time to find out what if anything was not fitting right before. I rolled the 5th skin section and test fit it on the forward cockpit former. Perfect fit. So it was the 6th skin piece that will be tight. Good thing I waited instead of shaving...

Finshed 4th section. The wing support wires are in, held firmly in place with a small bit of CA glue. This is 1mm wire.

And then roll on the skin. Notice The pre-drilled holes for wing spar wires and rigging thread.

Up till now, I've followed the sequence of 1. Form cone, 2. glue in tab strip, and 3. insert former. I got to the 4th section and it is more or less straight with strips on both sides so I rolled the glue strips around the formers first.

Dang! Now I realize why many build threads only have one picture per post. I tried to put multiple ones on that last post and it just made a list. I like them to display in line, so I guess I'll play the multi-post game. Here is the first 3 sections of the nose.

OK, time to start skinning that fuselage! I thought about putting the skin on the cockpit formers and working out from that as I've seen so many do. So I dry fit the skin and it seemed too small. What had I done wrong? I'm not sure if it's really too small or just a tight fit and it needs...

Thanks! I thought about that and wondered if it'd make them too "slick" and easier to fall out? But you're right about potential for wear.

Fast forwarding a bit back to the cockpit, which now has had it's sides folded up and the 2 formers and glueing strips that enclose it put on. Note in the pic the 2 arrows. I had to cut the former here and glue the instrument panel on separately from the rest of the former. I really don't...

And the finished prop, modeled with the engine. BTW, this prop will be able to rotate, as it has good support front and back in the crankcase, as long as you keep the holes pretty tight. It is easy to remove and put back later once everything is assembled.

Here's a revised blade part being curved at the bottom. Once glued together, I got the sooth transition I was looking for from root to flat blade.

Moving along now to finish the propeller. After trying to assemble a blade with the 2 parts as given, I was never satisfied with my efforts. In an attempt to simplify things, I edited the parts PDF and created a page with a modified part. I merely slid one blade part into the other, thus...

Thanks for all the kind words guys! cardmodeler, thanks for that link to Kardmodelle, I had not even looked over there. I think a few of his pics will help. Rick

It would not be eligible if the final shot shows up here first? Serious, or just kidding? Seriously, I thought I'd better clarify that!

Here's the completed hub and shaft parts. Since they've had a bunch of sanding, they will need to be painted.

That turned out OK, not perfect, but then I did not have the thing centered perfectly.

The font hub is rolled from part 23c, but it is pretty plain and squared ended as is. I sanded the part that meets the blade holders in a concave by wrapping sandpaper around a dowel and sanding it. As for the rounded front end, I tried a technique I've seen for sanding wheels. I glued the...

The completed rolled up part. As you see, there are card shoulders to glue the propeller blades to. This is why I don't see why the wire was needed, unless it was just to support the card being rolled, but it seems that would be strong enough on its own...

Next, you roll it up