Last week we added the first piece of skin to the model.
This week, we began as ever by taking out all of the parts.
The first thing to be done is to take these parts:
And assemble them into the frame for the starboard side fuel tank cover.
Then I stuck together a few other pieces to finish all of the wooden assemblies for this week.
Next, I added rivet marks to the metal pieces (with the exception of the skin for the tank cover.
Following a great deal of filing to curve off two of the wooden blocks, I added rivet marks to one of them (very faint in this picture):
Before adding any metal components that were necessary.
I then set these pieces aside for painting and moved on to assembling the flare chute.
Following this was making some wiring, I had to strip the end of a wire, and tease apart the end as shown here.
Next, I added the stringers to the hatch cover:
Before using it as a template to mark out rivet lines on the skin to cover it (I forgot to take a photo here), and attaching the two smaller pieces to the frame between the fuselage and the inboard starboard engine.
Following this, I primed and painted all of the pieces which needed to be black.
And then all of the pieces which needed to be green.
Before adding colour where necessary.
Then, I added the wire I began preparing earlier.
I next moved on to placing the jack into the fuselage.
Followed by the divider.
Then I glued the flare chute into the aft most piece of fuselage, and attached the small panel to the frame above it, connecting pieces of wire to make it appear to be wired up.
And then added a flare.
Following that, I painted the two parachutes and the life raft with a mixture of paints.
Before placing the parachutes into their respective boxes.
The completed the assembly to the point where I could install the two metal plates, one of the parachutes, and two of the wooden assemblies into the bomb aimer’s position.
And the life raft and other parachute went in different parts of the fuselage.
Concluding the work for this week.
Next week we’ll be working on the port wing, including adding part of the skin to it.