Tiger Moth Work-In-Progress

bughunter kirjailija
After I got this kit as present - Thank you Kenneth - I found also some accessories. Luckily the kit was some years old so I found the sets cheaper. The start was triggered recently while I was cleaning my bench and working room. All the additional CMK boxes were to big to fit them into the Airfix box so I cut some of the bigger resin parts from the mold. But once they are cut I found myself mounting them.
Yeah, my first Airfix kit and my first CMK cockpit set 👍

LucLuke B
I'll be watching over your shoulder if you don't mind.

bughunter kirjailija
Hey Luke - you are the lucky first one! A warm welcome.
Just added some more pictures.

gorby
Joining the audience for this build. 🙂
The cockpit looks great and the instrument panels look amazing!

bughunter kirjailija
Welcome and thank you gorby!
The CMK set is really great so I have not used much from the kit yet and in opposite to other projects no scratch work is needed 🙂

Kenneth
That'll be another great result 👍 You will be adding the rods that connect the throttles, the tailplane trim (on the left fuselage half), the slat controls (on the right fuselage half), the rudder bars, and to their respective destinations (engine, tailplane, slats)?

bughunter kirjailija
Thank you Kenneth for the detailed information and pictures!
One remaining question on the right side of the cockpit, see picture 16 (part of the Eduard manual).
The parts 29 are the control of the slats, that's clear. But what is the purpose of the two levers 10? Should I leave them out?

Robert Podkoński
Taking a first row seat on this Talent Show!

Christoph Kunz
Me 5.
I'm happy you're doing a biplane again. 🙂

Kenneth
I've never ever seen such levers (10), and I wouldn't know what they should operate. One guess - and I repeat guess - would be for actuating retro-fitted wheel brakes on a modern, restored aircraft. Personally, I'd leave them out.

bughunter kirjailija
That seems to be a good educated guess Kenneth 👍 So I have not mounted the levers (10).
In meantime I found some PDFs of original manuals! Very interesting drawings 🙂
In pic 16 Eduard showed two levers 29, the CMK cockpit set only one. May be there are updates with slat control in both cockpits but the original drawing shows this lever onll in back cockpit. So I followed the CMK manual. Now I understand also how this control wire runs to the upper wing and can clearly see it on the reference pictures of "my" Tiger-Moth.

Regarding the little maintenance lids: Eduard provides around 80 and the instructions where to add those. They seems to follow the original generic drawings, but on "my" Moth the layout seems to be different. For example they are sitting on the lower surface on the tail plane instead of upper. So I followed my ref pics here, but this task is not yet complete.

Alec K
Taking a belated seat for another superbuild 👍

bughunter kirjailija
Welcome to this build Alex and Lorraine!
Due to spring and nice weather outside not much progress as hoped, but may be some new pics soon.

Marcel Klemmer
Take seat…

bughunter kirjailija
Welcome Marcel!
Added some new pics. Decided for a different mounting order. The instructions says to cover the engine early, but as the covers overlap the fuselage that complicates the paint job.

Simon O'Gorman
Very enjoyable watching this come together.