October 10, 2024
The next problem was the instrument coaming. Something isn’t right in the design of the kit. The coaming that comes with the kit wouldn’t fit over the top of the instrument panel, it wasn’t deep enough to reach the side of the cockpit opening. Plus, the forward canopy then wouldn’t sit in place. I manufactured a very rudimentary coaming out of plasticard that had different geometry to the kit piece. It’s probably not accurate, but it fits and the forward canopy can sit over the top of it. Here it is before I put the top piece in place