Thanks for your support guys!
Here's the latest on the build. Progress is a bit slow now due to the christmas rush at work right now and less spare time to build. I'm going to start this update slightly off topic with a little story about what happened to my FT Spitfire.
I had planned to maiden the Fw last weekend but weather interfered with high wind on sunday. I decided it was too risky with high winds and a new design so I took up my Spit instead. First sortie went well even though the wind was gusting hard. Second sortie did not go quite as well. Took off, went almost a whole circle around the field when a gust of wind blew my plane inverted.
An more experienced pilot certainly would have handled that but I'm not experienced enough to handle a situation like that. Anyway the Spit went pretty much straight into the ground. Watch the video:
However the damage could have been a lot worse. Came away with a broken prop, hstab and the fuselage under the wing, so it is definitetly repairable. These are some durable planes! Here´s a few pics of the damage:
Broken h-stab
Wing has detached a bit from the fuselage.
Prop broken and some minor impact damage to the front fuselage.
Ok, so enough with the Spit, what has happened with the FW 190?
Well it was ready for maiden on sunday, but it did not fly due to the wind. So this is what I did to get it ready:
Cut open a battery hatch in the front fuselage.
Rear turtle deck is gued in place. BBQ skewer that holds the power pod in place and a hole cut open in the cockpit to get a finger in to lift the rear of the power pod into place.
Battery hatch is reinforced with packing tape in the hinge and a piece of foam board have been attched to the front to act as a locking point.
Two holes have been made to lock the battery hatch in place and two more BBQ skewers have been added to the nose cone to go through those holes.
Nose cone in place, locking the battery hatch in position. 8x6 prop looks a bit small, will have to order a 9x6 instead.
Mid and front turtle decks glued. Was a lot harder to get straight than the rear and unfortunately both got a bit crooked and wrinkled. It's not perfect but it will have to do. Also I did a quick cockpit window frame from some scrap foam board just for fun. Not sure if this will make it to final design or not.
The plane is now minwaxed and I've bought some paint so that is the next step.