Sopwith Dove for CO2

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Thanks John, Now doped and looking good

Made a start on the wings this afternoon. They needed very minimal sanding having ribs cut from a template, balsa dowel leading edge and sheet trailing edge. Most of the work was round the tips to thin the 1/32 x 1/16" basswood laminated tips and blend them into the LE

I'm keen to fit the bamboo wing hoops (is that what they are called) if it does indeed fly as they are so much a character of the aircraft.

To fit them I have added some cocktail stick mounts at 12 deg to the wing ready to accept them using some heat shrink tubing to give a flexible mount...if it gets that far

Still got to cover the top but down the tips in separate small section 

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A bit more covering this afternoon.

Lower wings now drying having been water shrunk . Just the top of the top wings to cover now

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Slowly doing the covering. Top wing water shrinking. The centre section will be left open so I can fit it once the fuselage is pinted

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First a screw up or oversight if you're being kind. Having rushed on with the covering it was only when looking at the photo's for which bits to paint that I realised I have missed out the open section in centre section  . Luckily I had only covered the underside so a bit of correction was possible .This proved quite easy adding the curved rear sections front and rear and gluing them to the spars and the covering. Once dry I could cut out, the cut out part

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So I'm now at the point I can paint it before the final assembly and finishing. Before that I did one last trial assembly to check I haven't forgotten anything else. At the moment the CG is slightly ahead of where it should be but I think even the lighest coat of paint will sort that out