Sopwith Pup RNAS

Parts off the sprues and cleaned  

 

Engine painted 

Detail painting of the wing inspection panels. 

Seat and belts done 

Ignition wiring 

Started painting wooden areas 

Cockpit details started  

cockpit built up 

more cockpit details 

and some more 

ammo on the sides 

ammo stack 

instrument panel dry fitted 

I read from some builds that after putting in the cockpit in the fuselage, the fuse may not fit the lower wing, in which the cockpit subassembly sat too high, and too forward, that everything just misaligned completely. After some analysis, the cockpit floor has a semicircular cutout that corresponds to a semicircular notch on the bottom wing and should slot in together. After test fitting, I came to the conclusion that some builders may have missed this. as I did not have any issues. 

Here are the notches on the cockpit floor 

Here, I dry fitted the completed cockpit on the wing bottom, then dry fitted the fuselage halves after. as you can see, the fit is perfect 

even on the rear 

and the cockpit floor sits flush to the wing bottom 

To help align everything perfectly, glue only the rear cockpit brace to the notch on the fuselage half, THEN, dry fit it to the lower wing and wait for it to dry. DONT GLUE THE CURVED SUPPORT BRACES ON THE SIDE FUSELAGE! 

These are the curved support brace molded on the fuselage halves. Don't glue them to the fuselage wall side. I've seen that if you do, they can throw everything out of alignment since you will loose the necessary wiggle room to make everything fit properly. 

Decals on the instrument panel on 

Dry fitted on the cockpit 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuselage and wings now painted 

Believe it or not, this is just dry fitted no glue. 

IP glued on. Now to close everything up 

Turtle deck on, and the subassemblies now being carefully glued together 

 

Firewall and engine attached to the fuselage 

Test fit of the cowling 

 

decals 

decals on the fuselage 

 

 

dry fit of the horizontal stabilizer 

landing strut built up 

WNW decals are really amazing 

Even on a matte surface, after sealing them, they look like painted on 

More decal work on the wing struts, landing gear struts…. 

And wheels 

Roundels are on! 

 

 

 

Lewis gun being dry fitted 

Now on it's legs 

 

 

Landing gear struts and wing struts on! 

Rigging… 

Rigging… 

Rigging… 

Rigging… 

Rigging… 

Rigging… 

Rigging… 

And more rigging… 

Lewis MG… 

 

Wheel, engine, prop, cowling on.