The tail surfaces are now covered and fitted to the fuselage. I made three changes from the plan all involving the rudder.
The plan showed the tailwheel leg running vertically up the rudder almost to the closed loop horn, this would have made fitting the pin hinges where I wanted it impossible so I have fitted it to the bottom of the rudder thus making room for the hinge close to the bottom of the rudder not a 1½“ up from the bottom.
The tail wheel assembly on the plan shows the leg just bent whereas the full size aircraft had a yoke for the wheel so I have modelled a yoke in brass and silver soldered it to the cut-short leg. You can see where the tailwheel is epoxied and bound to the bottom of the rudder.
Finally the kit provided a huge 2mm ply rudder horn, nothing like anything ever fitted to the full size version, so I made a brass horn which is epoxied into the rudder with two short lengths of piano wire to stop it from twisting loose.
The Laser 80 is also fitted and aligns nicely with the glass fibre cowl. To get a snake to it for the throttle would be neigh on impossible so I’ve used a SuperTec Naro servo fitted adjacent to the engine.
A bit of fairing around the base of the fin and the fuselage could be covered but I’ve yet to decide what to do about the cabin as having a glass roof it is very visible. This model will be stand off scale at best but an instrument panel and some seating would make it look a lot better. This would be a lot easier with no covering to allow for finger access.