[Sailor Steve]

It only took about two hours of fiddling, fidgeting and fighting to get the tail boom straight. I made the booms out of square brass rod and the tailplane attachement pieces out of a thin brass strip. The forward struts are from some plastic aerofoil stock I puchased decades ago. The after struts are spare plastic cut to shape. Oddly, the lower boom mounts to the bottom of the big tailplane attachment, but the upper boom doesn't mount to the top. Instead it mounts to the tailplane itself, leaving the top of the attachment to be braced by a rigging wire. There are other small support struts that go from the bottom wing to the lower boom, but those will come tomorrow.