[Kedumba]

Hi All,
With all the wet weather and non flying weekends combined with lots of weekend shifts for me means lots of time not flying and after the mediocre sucess of my Luton Minor, I decided it was time to take the lessons learned from that build and start another wet weather project.

This time I'm building a Morane Saulnier A1 from a free set of plans I got from Flying Scale Models magazine a while ago.

Lots or really intricate shapes to cut out from balsa. Clearly this plan has been designed for a laser cutter or cnc machine and not hand cutting, but not having access to either, I've resorted to my trusty (rusty??) exacto knife...

Fuse is constructed in two separate halves, bottom, and top, which once completed are glued together to form the completed fuse. By far the longest process has been cutting out the pieces. They are very fiddley with lots of tabs. Once all the pieces are ready, the fuse halfs go together pretty quickly. Pictures attached of the bottom half of the fuse being constructed as well as completed top half.

I do have a question. The plans state that "Basswood" is used for the struts of the plane. I'm not sure but I think that it must be some kind of hardwood. Does anyone know where I might be able to get some 1/8" (3mm) square Bassword or some kind of Equivalent?

More to follow

Mick