Tailplanes.
One of the interesting things about these kits is that they are double-sided. Regular injection-molded kits provide a top and bottom half for the thick wings on newer planes, but the thinner wings on WW1 planes are a single piece. Vac kits are the same way, but this leaves ribs on top of the wings but indentations on the bottom. With the Be.2c I used the same nylon monofilament line I use for rigging to make bottom ribs, gluing them on one at a time. Later I just didn't worry about it, once again telling myself that they're only gaming toys.
These particular kits come with a top and a bottom for each wing. This makes rib bulges on both sides, but it also means twice the sanding and very careful fitting to make them the proper thickness, or thin-ness as the case may be. I've spent several hours sanding and fitting those stabilizers and rudders before I was ready to glue them on. I'm hoping to have the lower wings cut out, sanded, glued together and glued on by the time I'm done tomorrow.
I also got a cool little package in the mail today. Part of the fun of being a serious modeler is collecting interesting decal sheets. I have a sheet for the B-24 'The Dragon and His Tail', should I ever want to build that spectacularly-painted plane. What I ordered last week and recieved today is numbers. Specifically Austro-Hungarian serial numbers. I have a bunch of British and French numbers, and the little numbers for German planes, but the Austrians used special serials for each run of planes. As you can see, the Fokker B-types all started with '03.' and then serial numbers. Every Austro-Hungarian series had a two-or-three letter company code before the period, then a serial number behind. Scraping up numbers from random decal sheets was always a problem. No more. This new sheet from Blue Rider Decals has a pair of series codes for every type build, and a bunch of sets of numbers for the serials following the period. This sheet should number every A/H aircraft I'll ever build, with a lot left over.