The elevon trim pulleys and cable guards in the nose gear bay are all installed. The bases are alle very massiv. It would be sensible

Small pulleys, big effort. The blueprints show the elevon trim cables running  along the right cockpit wall to the rear. Within easy reach of the

According the original blueprints the control wires are all spliced. With the given narrow spacing between the wires this leads to the wires contacting each

With the last control rods installed the elevon controls in the fuselage are complete.

Two more control rods were finished and installed. The tubing dimension of 15.0 x 2.0mm in the required quality is no longer available . It

Further pivot links. These links are mounted directly onto the housing of the nose landing gear shaft assembly. That housing is not fabricated yet, but

These pivot links connect the fuselage control rods to the control rods leading into the wings. The base is from welded  CrMo sheet metal bolted

The rods lead under the seat from the control stick assembly backwards to the first pivoting link.  Each control links is made of 16 single

This shaft is a part of the drive for the elevon yaw compensation*. It is positioned at an angle in the rear fuselage section in

The Zinkphosphat primer which I use to cover my aluminium parts usually takes days to cure. And even then the surface remains sensitive to scratching.