Hi Carl (@clipper): I have both the thick and thin versions of the glue, but the thin seemed to work the best. I had been using thick CA with accelerator, but the bond is very brittle. The slightest jar on the frame and something pops off. The Gator's has a little flex to it. I am currently getting the inside and outside of the fuselage halves ready to install the cockpit and glue everything together.

That 3D part looks amazingly thin George (@gblair). It makes me wonder if the louvers on the P-36 could be printed in this manner (although they are quite a bit smaller).. Glad the warped wing straightened out. I have a B-52 kit with that problem that I want to tackle someday. This is all looking excellent. Congratulations on successfully getting that interior to work with the old Revell kit.

George, Good to see the cockpit and fuselage went together ok. Smart move on the wings. Progressing well.

I did a lot of wet sanding today, mainly on the fuselage, but also worked on the wings. When everything was done, I sprayed some Tamiya Fine Primer on the fuselage. Everything looks pretty good, so far. The bottom of the fuselage has a seam where the fabric was stitched together. I need to thing about how I will do that. I have also be doing some reading on the fabric rib tapes on the wings. These were fabric reinforcements where the fabric was stitched to the wing ribs to keep the fabric in-place. They were located on each of the ribs on the top of each wing, the bottom of each wing, and on both sides of the horizontal tail. There was a plywood reinforcement on the leading edge of the wings, so the stitching starts where the plywood stops. As near as I can tell, the ailerons, the elevators, and the rudder were not stitched. Please let me know if this info is wrong. Tomorrow I hope to add the horizontal tail surfaces and at least the bottom wing. Cheers everyone.

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Great progress, my friend @gblair! Not very much into stitching, but I think your approach is very good.

Thanks, Ian (@firelockg), Spiros (@fiveten), and John (@johnb). Stitching is an interesting subject that has a lot of debate. Lots of discussion about whether you should even show it, since it would be very subtle in most scales, and how to do it. From my reading, it also appears that later Dr.1s didn't have the rib tapes. I think I will go for doing tapes, but subtle. The stitching along the belly of the plane is a whole different debate.

Hi Carl (@clipper): Not knowing much about WW1 planes, I have had to do some research on the rib tapes. As with many things in modeling, there is a certain amount of disagreement about these. Some people say they are so subtle that they shouldn't be modeled at all, while others say the commercial rib tapes you can get are too pronounced. In real life, the tapes were apparently used on the top and bottom of the wings and the horizontal stabilizer, but not on the rudder or elevators. Of course, there is some controversy about that also. The other issue here is that apparently the rib tapes were used on early and mid-production Dr.1s, but not late production. The Dr.1 wings had plywood on the top front of each wing, so the tapes don't start at the start of the wing, but after the plywood. I have a set of Quinta rib tapes for a Dr.1 in 1/32 scale (which is close to 1/28), but they are very pronounced. I have a book that shows the rib tapes on a Dr.1 and they are very subtle. I am contemplating using Tamiya tape for the tapes and see how they look. I think the Quinta may work OK for the rib tapes on the belly. I will probably be tackling the tapes tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Great job with the rib tapes, my friend @gblair!