Thanks Hans, I'll do my best.... If I could earn the same salary when doing paper modeling for a living, the choice would be very easy I guess
. No more stress, only fun.
Continued with the empennage, which also consists of the aft fuselage section. The tail section is a challenge as the round shape of the fuselage changes into the hollow part at the horizontal and vertical stabilizers. The design of the model is ingenious and requires accurate work at the builder's end.
It starts with the former of the last fuselage section, part number 13, on which the empennage internal structure needs to be attached. The building process is shown in the subsequent pictures. The fit of the individual parts is very good, requiring only marginal trimming or sandpapering. I tapered the aft part of the longitudinal former to have a better mating of both skin shells.
I doubled the wedge-shaped top cover, where the vertical stabilizer will be placed later on on 0.8mm thick cardboard, to ease its installation and to get a more stable platform for the stabilizer itself.
Also the very last and small part (ventilation outlet ducting) is doubled on 0.8mm cardboard. In fact the last former of the entire fuselage assembly. The kit offers two options here but it is not clear which one to be used. According to the designer he noticed two different outlets on actual pictures but concluded that the part I used here is in fact the most common one. Up to the builder to decide.
The position of the horizontal stabilizers is exactly horizontal and I drew a cross on a piece of paper to help in the alignment once the stabilizers need to be attached.
A slight misfit at the front side, (or an inaccuracy on my part), which should be easy to correct at a later stage.
Only the bumper still needs to be installed at the bottom side and then next will be the horizontal and vertical stabilizers.
Erik