She's coming along, just a few hang-ups, like my misplacing of wingtip piece #5 (not ruling out feline intervention) so I had to fudge out a new one. I use the Scrabble letter as a mini square for the ribs. Look how on the tissue you can see the chemical shadows of the wheels and the rubber string. I find this foamboard to be a far superior pin-holding platform than corrugated cardboard like I used to use. I use medium and thin CA with "Zip Kicker" accelerator. It does not damage the plans or finished tissue, but it does mess up the celluloid and the scent annoys the wife.
If you look closely in the last pic you can see the fiberglass rod that I use to double the upper spar to the 4th rib. This is actually called "tracker rod" and it is from a mechanical pipe organ, which is what I built for the first 20 years of my working life. One job's worth of tracker cutoff scraps will supply an aeromodeler with pushrod and spar stock for life. You can also burn the end briefly and it will become a mini brush.
On another subject, I discovered that these little crossover rx brick esc/servo things are pre-setup to run opposing ailerons. You can change it with the app of course, but by default the two ports will run two servos inverse of each other. Maybe this was common knowledge, but I thought the 4th port was data and the 3rd was the only extra channel. This is a propitious revelation, as I have a new board with one bad servo, so I will use the good one as elevator and run two loose servos as the ailerons of the two ports.
That's all for now, I have the day off and snowpocalypse is inbound, so I should get some serious work done this weekend. I hope to have it done for the next Kent indoor fly on the 28th of February, I'm optimistic.
