RCAF's 100th - 1/32 AVRO 504K

[lastvautour]

The fuselage is coming along.

Lou

[Boomerang]

 An interesting subject Lou.

 Gordon

[lastvautour]

I am struggling with the cowling. I have tried four time already. I just purchased a 15/16", 1" and 1 1/8" drill bits. I will try again.

[Boomerang]

 You will succeed .

 Gordon

[lastvautour]

The drill bits worked great.

Lou

[lastvautour]

Moving along. The AVRO 504 is the only active build on my bench.

Lou

[Jim]

In building, do you always run your interplane struts through the wings, Lou?

[lastvautour]

I always run them through. These are just toothpicks for this picture. I will be using bamboo sticks as per my usual arrangement.

Lou

[Dave T]

So all the wings will eventually have ribs like the black wing? I still have not tried that technique.

[Jim]

I've been thinking of adopting that technique. I used it once before, on the SE-5a I made a few years back, and it went fairly well. Normally, I press a notch into the wood and glue the strut into the notch. But the struts often don't always want to stay put, and I wind up having to re-set and re-glue them a lot. Drilling through the wing ought to make for a neater gluing connection, too. I think I'll try your technique again next time.

[lastvautour]

Dave: I use 1mm Tamiya tape for ribs.
Jim: I find it easier to align the wings.

Lou

[lastvautour]

A bit more progress and currently waiting for 1mm Tamiya tape to arrive by mail to continue with the wings.

Lou

[lastvautour]

The masking tape for the wings finally arrived. The wings are painted and assembled. Mating of the fuselage will take place shortly.

[lastvautour]

I made a jig to align the wings. Popsicle sticks did the trick.

Lou

[Jim]

That is one sharp approach to making and using a wing alignment jig! I'm chagrined that I never thought of using popsickle sticks. I continue to learn new things from you, Lou. Many thanx!