The kit looks very nice in the box and is surprisingly big,I always imagined these gliders to be quite frail .You get two options to choose from , the Mk 1 or the Mk2 , and for this build the correct choice is the Mk1 ,the Mk2 is slightly longer and so for me the first step is to cut away the unwanted section of fuselage from just aft of the cockpit, also the Mk1 has a larger door and this also needs to be opened up, this is quite sraightforward as the moulding has a "cut line" to follow with your craft knife.

The next step is to construct the larger door which is in three sections as it was in the real aircraft.

Well that is as far as I have got up to now.

Cheers N.

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Yes that's right, the scribe line was easy to cut.
N.

Well here is the second instalment of my Horsa build,the fuselage on this kit comes in three sections ,the nose ,the main body of the fuselage with the main wings and the tail section, these are where the hinges are on the real aircraft are so I guess this is so you can build it being loaded/unloaded in a dio.

The cockpit is fairly basic on the real aircraft and so it is in the kit,I added some harnesses made from very thin strips of Tamiya tape painted up and once it was built up I thought the control columns were too short so I pulled them off and extended them a couple of mm's to raise them up a bit,I may well pose this in an in flight dio (not decided yet) but if I do I will need to source a couple of pilot figures .

Thanks for looking ,N.

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Very interesting and different subject, Neil. Looking good so far. You might just have to build a Gooney Bird or a Stirling to tow it with...

I may have missed it somewhere, but whose kit is this and in what scale?

Looking good indeed, being on one of those gliders during the invasion must have been a truly terrifying ride into hell!

Great start Neil. Airfix had one of these out a few years back but it may be from the same moulds.

I recently saw a decal sheet on Hannants website that covered the 1/72 Horsa AND the 1/72 Shorts Sterling that would make an interesting dio.
N.

Just went through the build for the Stirling tug ,WOW well beyond me ,I didn't know the nose was different, brilliant job he made though,cheers for attaching it .
N.