1/4 scale Grunau Baby - Fuselage build

Hop, no glue

All looking good so far.
And I've put everything back in the box, I'll go back to the fuselage later, after I've made the second wing (that was more of an apetiser of what is coming next )

So, had an hour to spare this week end, time to go back to the Grunau Baby !
Work done on the fuselage, but this time, everything is glued !
Almost finished and ready for the servos to be installed before doing the sheeting in 0.8mm plywood.

All the formers are glued to the building template, just make sure that everything is square.
I started from the front to tail, gluing all the elements as I progressed (cockpit floor, servo tray...) to keep everything as straight as possible.
The strips are made of 5x5mm balsa.

This is the cabin template, made of 3mm plywood. Happy with that part, just the sheeting needed now !

All straight !

The profile is the MS535.

Backbone is glued...

So as the bottom one (at this stage, I was able to move the fuselage around...)

Everything simply slot together

And a few more photos...

Guides for the pushrod (5mm sullivan) are integrated to the formers for the elevator, rudder being a push/pull cable.

For once, I keep a log on the time spent, and so far, I have spent 7 and a half hours into this build
So far, so good !

The fixed rudder squeleton is now in place.
The 0.4mm plywood will then be rolled on it to make the final shape.

Servos and snake rod are in !

And with the really good weather this week end, that was time for the first setup of the machine in the garden !

Plan this week is to start the fuselage sheeting.. Should be relatively quick to do !

For once, I started with the tail, as the same time I've installed the controls linkage etc etc.

But first, started with the sheeting of the fixed part of the rudder, sheeted with 0.4mm plywood.

The last section of the fuselage is sheeted with 0.8mm plywood, and rough holes are made for the cables to go out.

I finally started to remove the building jig in the front to put in place the keel.

The elevator is also in place, and the mounting plates with blind nuts are glued in place.
Linkage is also done, and everything is hidden inside the fuselage

Lots of epoxy, sorry, did a pig job on that one !
Bolts are 4mm diameter.

The elevator linkage is made with F3A type control horn. Great for the job !
It is directly screwed on the elevator, between 2 plywood re-inforcements. Was not too sure about this system, but that is strong at the end !

And the "L" bent rod at the end. Easy to slide the control horn in it, and don't move once in place !

And that's it for now.. Fuselage is almost finished and completely sheeted in plywood...
I will soon start the wing sheeting and we will be ready for the first flight

At this stage, all the servos are in place and connected, ready to go !