Friday, November 21, 2014

Rigging and assembling cockpit interior

Hmm, had to drill a hole through part A37, otherwise the cable for pulling the elevator up has nowhere to go! There's a bulkhead in the way.

Now this cable can be rigged. Probably not visible once closed up anyway..



Framing and instrument panel done

Nearly missed this one!
This is the altimeter, it's to be suspended under the instrument panel as per photo.
Part A8 and decal 67 as mentioned in the photo caption on page 3.
It is not shown at all in the assembly illustration, just as a note under this one period photo of the subject!

Ready.
No mention on how to attach it though.
Suspect hanging it from the three attachment points using rigging thread would do it..

This picture shows the run of the elevator lift cables through the newly drilled holes through the bulkhead.

Control cables done.
Just realised I have not made any machine gun trigger cables.
The throttle cable is already molded onto the control stick, but there is no representation of the machine gun trigger cables.
Probably should have done this before installing the control stick! 

I wasn't quite sure how to attach the altimeter.
If I had just stock it to the ammo box, I would have blocked the sliding hatch, yet the pictures show it being located here. I then noticed the altimeter had what looks like three attachment points that you could potentially hang it by, so I rigged it up hanging as per picture above.
-Still to do; machine gun trigger cables..



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