Thanks for the links lads, I was hoping to find somewhere where I can get mast wires from

I haven't answered this for three days because I thought you meant you did find a source. For 1/700 models I use hair. It's fine, it's strong and once in place it can easily be painted black or silver. For 1/350 you might try a fine thread.

Another four days off and I finally got the cabanes mounted and the first coat of paint on.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psf02e6710.jpg

OK Steve thanks I do have some fine thread in my house somewhere.

Radiator and tail struts mounted, wood body, aluminum panels and steel struts painted.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps674b69ba.jpg

Looking real good!

Work in progress
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7d97b5cd.jpg

At your local hobby shop you can usually find striping tape or striping decals for cheap. It's not only straighter than hand painting, but easier as well. :sunny:

Got some tape on the way, hopefully it will look a lot better and straighter.

And another week of delays, mostly me being busy/lazy/depressed. I got the top wing on and everything ready a week ago today. Thursday I took it to the game to show what I had done, knowing it should have been finished at least a week earlier. Friday I was recovering from crawling around on my hands and knees - our game isn't for wimps.

Saturday I was ready to start the rigging when I noticed I hadn't put the exhaust pipes on. No collector stack, just six individual pipes. I had to carefully drill out holes in the side of the cylinders, then cut and mount the brass wire, then paint them.

Sunday I was ready to start the rigging again when I noticed something wrong If you look at the last picture there are three cabanes rather than the usual two. I had thought from the plan views that the front one was just to hold the radiator. What I noticed wrong was that rather than lead to the top or the bottom of the front cabane, the rigging line started in between the cabane and the inboard strut. That was just wrong - rigging wires are attached to the bottom or top of a strut, not to an unbraced rib. I looked through all the photographs until I finally found a good, clear front quarter view. Much to my surprise the second cabane was actually splayed outward to that midpoint, and the wire was attached to its upper end. There was also a matching one behind that doesn't show up on any of the plan-view drawings. I gave up for the night.

Monday I very carefully ripped out the second forward cabanes and measured and cut the new outward cabanes and glued them in. Yesterday I didn't touch it.

Today I finally stared on the rigging, almost a month after I started. The funny part is that it occured to me that if the Germans had the same sense of humor as the British they might have called it the "Two-and-a-half Strutter".

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psf0ba6f90.jpg

It could have taken one, it should have taken two, but after four weeks of fits and starts the Lloyd C.II is finally done.

Front
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps05405c89.jpg

Side, showing Schwarzlose gun
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps5775777c.jpg

This end up
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psfb4b0895.jpg

Bird wings
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...pscddcc4cb.jpg
Propeller by Propulsor
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psa9386fc2.jpg

This one came out very beautifully Steve. It really captures a sense of reality. :yeah:

Is there a hat's off smiley here? (insert hat's off smiley)

And now..... What the heck were they thinking splitting the leading edge, heck, all the spars on the top wing? I suppose there were some connections but that would seem to be a very weak aspect of the design, but it would also aid it transport-ability.

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/he...y-emoticon.gif What da Buddahaid want, da Buddahaid gits...

Finally :)

Very cool :cool:

I'm not sure what you mean, unless it's the top wing being in two pieces. If that's the case, I'm not sure either, but it's common to almost all the two-seaters of the period. I think I mentioned the trouble assembling the wings early on with kits like that. There are other planes on which the bottom wing doesn't touch the fuselage (Vickers Gunbus, Bristol F-2A). In those cases the spars still go straight through, so it's really a case of the wing being complete, just a small part isn't covered by fabric. I think it's the same here.