Almost Done

I'm done with the welding portion of this piece. I was very careful with the placement of the flame and didn't damage any of the epoxy joints. Since then I've been doing the rather tedious job of filling in the leather (metal) of the wings. This is one of those processes that had me wondering from the beginning if I would be able to pull it off. The trick is getting these little pieces to stay in place so I came up with the idea of using magnets which worked very nicely. I'm particularly pleased with the patina I've been able to coax out of the rusty sheet metal stock I've used.

I completed the interior cockpit during the past week and I've been continually working on the landing gear (very tricky, as I mentioned earlier, very tricky indeed). I'm nearing completion which is always a fun stage in a project and also a wee bit sad because I've enjoyed this one a lot.

Over the next couple of days I'll be cleaning up all my welds (metal and epoxy) and securing the landing gear. when this assembly is attached to the craft, I'll be finished.