I wasn’t too crazy about the profile of the fuselage, but dang, watching this come together is very satisfying.
Thanks! I'm still a little iffy on that wide turtledeck to stabilizer transition myself, but I hope once the graphics are in place it'll seem better proportioned. But I'm building this to be a fun fly and sport flying biplane - not a scale beauty, so a little weirdness doesn't bug me too much
I did a mock-up assembly last night to cut all the hinge holes in the covered pieces - easier to do this before covering the control surfaces and losing track of where the hinge slots should be!
I put the old cowling plug on the nose - and confirmed I don't like it
Can also see some ugly wingtip transitions from the green in these shots. Going to need to do some cleanup with thin strips of white on top of these.
And here's putting a couple scraps of white sort of in place for the top graphics. Thinking to do 2 white pieces on each side of the wing a good bit wider than the triangular proportions of the scraps sitting there now. I've done a similar design before on my EVA, so to try something a little different I want to round off the pointy end of the white arrow and outline the pieces in a thin black pinstripe.
I've also got a couple clean up things on the covering. I need to cut off one of the green wing tips on the top wing - maybe both - and redo them. They just didn't stretch out right, and I'd rather have a small hard to see seam than the bunched up wrinkle look. If I fail miserably at getting a smooth tip in green, I might need to switch to white for the wingtips.
I also need to clean up the leading edge color transitions - I didn't always get a clean straight cut on the green, so I need to go back over the edge with a thin piece of something - probably white since it's much easier to get a good finish with.
And if I'm going to do a black pinstripe around the white arrows, I need to figure out how I'm going to do an outline or drop shadow on the white graphics too so they don't look out of place. Not sure I want to just build up extra layers of vinyl to do it, but will do some research and see what works for other people on these.