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Fuselage bottom
Hello gents, and thank you so much for your interest!
@ Yoav: Don't worry, I'll be reading the red notes carefully...
@hyair: The bird is pretty big, I guess it will be around 45cm long when completed and to be honest, I have to make space at the expense of older stuff I'm afraid.
Well, the build continues with the bottom part of the fuselage. Fitting the wheel bays with the GPM model required a bit of trial and error and trimming of the required parts, but nothing undoable.
Compared to the upper section, the bottom parts came together quite easily. The engine exhaust also no problem but gluing the nozzle to the aft fuselage section was tricky. Difficult to apply the glue properly due to the little available space.
Finally some smaller parts, like the air brakes and air vents.
As mentioned before, I have doubled the skins by adding paper on the inside and the end result is a very rigid center assembly of the model.
Should not forget to add some weight in the nose when the time is there as the model might be tilting backwards when on its own legs. A concern for later though.
Apologies for the orange tone of the pictures, most of them were taken late at night...
Cheers,
Erik
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