Getting crowded

 

I am now fitting the comings - the bits that go around the cockpit. The pieces provided in the kit are dead straight, and there is no way that they would fit neatly to the carlins. 

I ended up clamping then in place, marking them and cutting them as shown in the red outline below. The coming will be a bit lower, but the do fit... I will do the final trim with a block plane and a router with a trimming bit once everything is set

The garage is getting mighty crowded as I am also making up the rubrails - they are about 6m long so need to curl up into the roof just to fit!



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