Cockpit combing on the upper longeron cowling.
Hi guys!In order to make a very convining looking cockpit hole in the cowling I used some leather edging or beading from an old light brown leather womens purse.The leather is soft and quite worn at the edge.It already has the general shape required so it went on easily.I glued it down with super glue and used brown and black pastels for shading on where the raw leather was exposed.This leather is very pliable and would be great for seats or leather trim on airplanes or cars.
In the pic that I will put up next there is a figure of the Jenny's fuselage section that I am building now and the arrangement that I will use to set the fuselage on the hangar floor.My fabric fuselage sides look a little too perfect right now so I will have to plan a few tears and patches.In reality the fuselage would probably have been skinned at this point for easy access but here again I took a little licence and left most of it on.There are two reasons for this, number 1 is that I want to give the viewer an idea of what the airplane would look like with its skin and the 2nd reason is that I am too damn lazy to put in all the wires and fittings again.(mostly the 2nd reason,I think)
Cheers! John
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