Fueslage almost done. Using care when gluing will help keep the fuselage straight and not twisted.
Normally you need to apply a bunch of pressure when gluing. Part of paper modeling is learning the correct amount of pressure and time to apply. You have to force the glue into the paper fibers.
Turbo Tacky or any Tacky glue dries a little faster to help with shortened hold/clamping times.
Clamps
Haven’t talked about clamps yet. Not needed for this build, but there are plenty of other builds that will require some sort of clamps.
Clothes pins work great, they can be taken a part and then put together upside down to create a different clamping pressure. I’ve used tied together rubber bands for clamping airfoil shapes.
1510 Gluing left top of fuselage tailcone-glue has been applied
1514 Fuselage done
1516 Gluing Wing onto fuselage. Insert wingroot glue tabs into the slits you cut. Once snug up against the fuselage side. Apply glue being careful to make sure all tabs are fully inserted into the fuselage, and stay there until glue sets.
1532 closeup of glue fillet
1518 Gluing the tailfeathers
1520 Gluing tailfeathers 2
1546 Toothpick Landing gear support
1548 Tailwheel pieces, used super glue to harden this part. It can fail easily if not soaked in super glue. Or super glue gel added to certain weak points.
1552 Fake Disc Brakes. They are used to support the wire axle and the toothpick supported oleo struts for the landing gear. They hide the connection as well as guide the tire vertically if you make them rotatable by using a wire axle.
1555 Tire Discs
More to follow.
Mike