@sundown57 No pictures. It's late. Servos, control horns, control rods and supports are all in. The wing is glued to the frame. Basically, I'm saying that this bird is ready to fly! Except taking the paper off from the bottom of the wings mean those wings definitely need support.
I read through the instructions on how to string them, but I'm less than positive as to what to do. Can you put up a few pics of exactly how the stringing looks, when complete? If I can finish this bird up tomorrow, she might see the sky in the next day or two!
this one is a lot easier to string then the biplane.
1. on the outside support I just run the needle through backward ( thread first) from inside of support to make a loop on the outside. That leaves a loop outside and 2 strings inside.
2. glue about an inch of the string to the inside of the support (image 3880) and trim the excess flush to the wing.
3. slide 1/2 toothpick into the loop. pull tight and glue in place. (image 3885)
4.. Do this on both from and back of the same wing.
5. now run the string across the fuselage but do NOT glue to fuse yet, repeat steps 1-3 on the other wing pulling string just tight enough to begin deforming the wing. (image 3882)
6. once the 2 strings are glued to all 4 points on the struts and are tight, turn the plane over and just eyeball the leading edge to make sure it is straight, once the leading edge is straight on both sides mark the string so you can turn the plane over again and glue it in place to the fuselage. ( image 3895)
7. once the glue is dry on the front sting, again turn it over and center the trailing edge to get it even on both sides and glue it in place ( image 3894)
Unless you are buzzbomb most all the load is on the bottom of the wing pushing up, so the string doesn't have to be super tight, it will tighten up when load is applied to it. The string really only keeps the wings from fluttering and straight.
