There's a fuel tank inside. Don't know anything about these rotary fuel tanks, but Frank Tiano tells me this is the only fuel tank he uses in his giant scale planes - good enough for him good enough for me.   

I wanted to put the fill on top of the fuse; there's a hinged cover on the real hurricane about midway between the glass and the cowl, but darned if I can get a good pic of it, or actual location. So I'm going to take a tip from Todd's Strega. I noticed his fill line exits in the hatch he uses for switches and all that stuff, so, pending more info on the top front cover, I'll go with this location...

With the tank in I can start working around where the throttle and choke servo go, THEN can think about sheeting the front.

Couldn't wait for LHS any more, so tied the fuel tubing off with micro wire ties and installed the tank. Screws in so I "should' be able to get it out if needs be. 

Tank is in the way of the pushrods to the carb!!  Don't engine manufacturers think of this stuff when they design the engines??? Throttle will be easy, but choke will require a bit of effort - think I'm going to put a servo plate on the side of the fuse to the right behind the tank, under that red tube which will be the throttle pushrod feed. The servos will be on their side sticking into the area behind the stringers 

The things you think about when driving through the boring barrens of northern New Brunswick!! When cutting the firewall out, I followed the inside of the lines on the template - not enough..
As you can see the cowl is flush with the stringers, before the sheeting is put on... So now I mark 3/32 around the edge of the firewall and start sanding  With care I can taper everything back smoothly.....
Well, since the sheeting is 3/32, perhaps a bit less than 3/32 is the best, gives some sanding room...so 1/16 all around

Fingers wrote on Sep 21^st, 2016 at 6:46pm:


Ready to put your head in that vise yet Sandy? 

Fingers wrote on Sep 27^th, 2016 at 2:16pm:


Sorry I was never a kit builder does #2 reference a bowel movement or something else?

Cut, fit, pin, take off and trim, re-fit with more pins, take off and trim again...trial fit 
Neat thing is this piece fits the other side too, so make a copy and then

fit, trim a bit, fit, glue, pin, pin, some tape and a few more pins 

THEN cut some saddles out....

Looking great, Sandy! I like it. Good to see real wood being used again.

Between this thread and looking at Al's plans for the big P-47, the building itch has got the Tigercat back to the table - just have to figure out where I was.

You're getting do good at sheeting, I just may have to offer a bribe or two to get mine done. 

Wing saddle rough cut - NOW starting to look like it might someday maybe become something recognizable as an aircraft..
Many ways to cut the saddle.. I took a piece of wire just long enough to fit between the sides, and sharpened the ends. Then laid the wire on the saddle inside, and ccaarrreeefffuulllyyy moved it side to side and punctured the sheeting. Then took a pencil and joined the dots - gave me the shape of the saddle on the outside.
Then I cut a slit, slid a hack saw blade through side to side (fortunately my father's old stock from 157 years ago had a lot of very fine toothed blades.)  Slide, slide, saw, slide, saw, eventually "VOILA"    saddles on either side. Then of course we have 1/32 ply panels running back to the inside ply edges to give a finished look, but I can't do much more here until the wing center section is done....

Sandy,
Any pics on the scheme you will be using?
Maybe it's there but might have missed it...

That looks quit scary Sandy!  Do you cut the main spar to get the wheels up? If so what are the guys doing to strengthen the wing? Also were is the flap/ aileron joint in relation to the gear. Your pic doesn't show that.  That would be the place to cut if it's at all possible. Looks like a tough one to me.