Hi everyone,
Thanks for your kind words and now it's my turn again to show some progress. Next week I'll be enjoying s short vacation so this will probably be the last posting before going to the Dutch Mountains (ha, ha).
Continued with the control column and glued it into place. Rolling the vertical part of the column stifly around the preshaped part of a paper clip worked out well by firstly glueing one edge to the metal, then let it dry. By using white paper glue, which softens up the paper as it gets a bit wet, the column can be shaped by rolling the paper gently. Make sure that both sides stay aligned. I used Tamiya paint from my plastic model days to touch up edges and paint the paper clip into more or less the same colour.
Next came the navigator's seat. Every edge has to be glued head on (I'm not sure if this is the correct wording, in Dutch it's called "stotend"); no glueing tabs provided. To reinforce the seats and backrest I completely filled them up with cardboard for easier handling while glueing the parts in place and to prevent damage by inadvertently pressing these hollow parts. It's all quite fragile without this minor fiddling (charming work but invisible in the end result)...
Finally, I punched small holes in the shoulder and lap straps to make it look more realistic.
Ok, lunchbreak's over, see you next time
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Erik