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A built Vario MD 900 kit (by Vario)
The real thing in UK Air Support Colours
October 19,2009
Yep, the weather did it again, damp, grey skies and
thoroughly miserable up here in Blackpool, so there was no good
reason not to continue work on the MD900.
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I decided to start detailing the various cockpit
accessories, such a as cyclic and the collective control
sticks. I amusing electric blue metallic paint for the
shafts, and silver in the appropriate places.
Hopefully this will add a bit more life to an otherwise
slightly drab black and grey cockpit. |
I have also
applied the final coat of lacquer to the horizontal stabilizer, so
once that is dry I can mount the white navigation beacon on the top
surface permanently. As soon as the vertical fins have dried
from the blue central flash the owner asked for, I will be able to
rub them down and lacquer them, and then the final task for the
stabilizers will be to fit the vertical fins to the horizontal
stabilizer.
Although the
prototype actually has control of the angle of the vertical fins via
the rudder controls, a little sadly the model will not have this
feature.
The reason I am doing stuff like this that would of
course normally wait until a lot later on in the build is because I
am still waiting for the engine and rotor head kits to arrive, and
apparently we are waiting on Vario Germany to ship them over to the
UK,
So I also
continue to slowly flat down the main fuselage tub with 1200 wet
& dry between light colour coats, which is along and painstaking
process, but the surface is getting pretty good right now. It
should be pretty well ready for it's final colour coat before the
end of this week.
However, I
cannot do until the missing kits arrive, as I still have to mount
the mechanics tub, which is sure to leave some final making good to
be done. It looks like the cockpit may well be installed
before I get around to mounting the mechanics at this rate. 
October
20, 2009
Still damp and
even more windy so back to work on the MD900. Mostly odds and sods
really today.
At the request
of the owner of the MD 900, I have taped the boom in place and lain
the tail surfaces in place loosely and taken pictures of it with a Belt CP so that
he can assess it's actual size. You can view these pictures if
you wish by clicking the link here.
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