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decals are started on the fuselage and stabilizer

 

 

 

 
 

The 3 subassemblies dry fitted. To be fair, you can fit all the rest of the parts, if you're confident enough, with PVA glue, and use the rigging to hold em all together.

 

 

On with the build.
Since based on dry fitting, the cockpit, fuselage and lower wing should align itself without any effort, so I glued the fuselage and cockpit subassembly

 

Also, if you plan to build the trainer or the RNAS carrier trial pup with lewis guns, obviously you won't install the vickers gun. But they don't clearly indicate in the images of the build to leave out the ammo container for the vickers. They mention it in passing, but can be easily missed since we usually follow the pictures to check our progress.

Before the build, I of course researched on how the kit goes, and the report was the cockpit parts, when mated to the fuselage then mated to the wings, will cause alignment issues, in which the fuselage won't fit flush with the wing bottom, and that you have to shave of or and the cockpit floor. After doing some dry fitting, I found a solution:
 
The cockpit floor, has circular notches at the bottom:

 
That fits on the lower wings, which has the circular pegs:

 
If you actually fit the cockpit parts, WITHOUT trapping it in the fuselage first, the cockpit floor sits flush over the wing bottom. It seems that the trouble stems partly when you glue in the curved spars on the cockpit sides that causes the problem, since mounting the part misaligned even by a few millimeters, will cause fit issues.  There are 2 solutions: either mount the cockpit subassembly to the wing, then build the fuselage around it (which may add to effort in painting the kit later, OR
 
 
Glue the cockpit subassembly to the fuselage  half at the rear locating part CAREFULLY. Then dry fit this fuselage/cockpit subassembly on the lower wings. Once the fuselage half and the cockpit has been solidly mated, you can remove this subassembly from the lower wing, and then glue the other half of the fuselage to close everything up

 
Note at this point, I haven't glued the fuse together, and only held in place with tape

 

But you can already see that the fit is flush and exact.
 
One way to check it is look inside the cockpit. From the front of the lower wing, there is the lowered area where the cockpit floor should sit flush.

 
 
 
 

Some detail painting on the pulley on the wings

Seat and belts built and painted

Painted the parts, and started to divide into different subassemblies

 
 
Engine built and painted

 

Painted the cockpit floor using cream white lacquer paint.  I also detailed painted the other wooden rudder pedals, and wooden foot plank. The stick was painted with silver metallics.

Built up the landing strut subassembly, dry fitting it to keep the alignment of the struts

 

decals are started on the fuselage and stabilizer

 

 

 

 
 

Built up the landing strut subassembly, dry fitting it to keep the alignment of the struts

 

decals are started on the fuselage and stabilizer

 

 

 

 
 

Built up the landing strut subassembly, dry fitting it to keep the alignment of the struts

 

Built up the landing strut subassembly, dry fitting it to keep the alignment of the struts

 

decals are started on the fuselage and stabilizer

 

 

 

 
 

Built up the landing strut subassembly, dry fitting it to keep the alignment of the struts

 

Some detail painting on the pulley on the wings

Painted the parts, and started to divide into different subassemblies

 
 
Engine built and painted

 

Painted the cockpit floor using cream white lacquer paint.  I also detailed painted the other wooden rudder pedals, and wooden foot plank. The stick was painted with silver metallics.

Built up the landing strut subassembly, dry fitting it to keep the alignment of the struts

 

The 3 subassemblies dry fitted. To be fair, you can fit all the rest of the parts, if you're confident enough, with PVA glue, and use the rigging to hold em all together.

 

 

On with the build.
Since based on dry fitting, the cockpit, fuselage and lower wing should align itself without any effort, so I glued the fuselage and cockpit subassembly

 

Also, if you plan to build the trainer or the RNAS carrier trial pup with lewis guns, obviously you won't install the vickers gun. But they don't clearly indicate in the images of the build to leave out the ammo container for the vickers. They mention it in passing, but can be easily missed since we usually follow the pictures to check our progress.

Before the build, I of course researched on how the kit goes, and the report was the cockpit parts, when mated to the fuselage then mated to the wings, will cause alignment issues, in which the fuselage won't fit flush with the wing bottom, and that you have to shave of or and the cockpit floor. After doing some dry fitting, I found a solution:
 
The cockpit floor, has circular notches at the bottom:

 
That fits on the lower wings, which has the circular pegs:

 
If you actually fit the cockpit parts, WITHOUT trapping it in the fuselage first, the cockpit floor sits flush over the wing bottom. It seems that the trouble stems partly when you glue in the curved spars on the cockpit sides that causes the problem, since mounting the part misaligned even by a few millimeters, will cause fit issues.  There are 2 solutions: either mount the cockpit subassembly to the wing, then build the fuselage around it (which may add to effort in painting the kit later, OR
 
 
Glue the cockpit subassembly to the fuselage  half at the rear locating part CAREFULLY. Then dry fit this fuselage/cockpit subassembly on the lower wings. Once the fuselage half and the cockpit has been solidly mated, you can remove this subassembly from the lower wing, and then glue the other half of the fuselage to close everything up

 
Note at this point, I haven't glued the fuse together, and only held in place with tape

 

But you can already see that the fit is flush and exact.
 
One way to check it is look inside the cockpit. From the front of the lower wing, there is the lowered area where the cockpit floor should sit flush.

 
 
 
 

Some detail painting on the pulley on the wings

Cockpit built up

 

 
 
Dry fitted the detailed Instrument panel onto the cockpit

 
And decal instrument faces placed on after