ISSA - Building ASH 26 Cockpit tray seat and combings in place.

Building the Schuler 1:3 ASH 26 Rick Briggs
Cockpit tray seat and combings in place.
	Here the seat tray and seat are in place.
	Here you can see the canopy frame is in place so you can see how the combings fit. The cloth on the sides were first mounted to 1/32 poster board cut to fit the sides. I use 3M 77 spray to bond the cloth to the poster board. Then I glue the poster board to the fuselage with Zap a-dap-a Goo II. Also you can see the air vent and the seat adjusting handle. The face of the vent was made from a piece of birch dowel, turned on my Unimat lathe to fit the inside of the tube, then painted with gloss enamel. The handle is a piece of flat aluminum, plate, with a round knob made again of birch dowel turned to shape and painted with gloss enamel. The pouch is made with a piece of 1/32 brass wire at the top edge of the cloth, zap a goo is used to bond the cloth to the wire. Just fold the cloth over the wire, wile it is drying, bunch up the cloth on the wire so as to make it look like it has a bungee cord in side. Shape the bottom of the pouch to fit the seat try by folding the cloth under and again using zap a goo. Don't try to make it perfect the more bunched up the better it looks. Next, if you just happen to be at a full size glider meet, be sure to take a photo of your friends way point map. Then take the photo of the map to some one that has a laser photo copier and reduce it down to the scale size you want, then stuff it in the pouch.Now you can see how all the prep work paid off by imbedded the brass tubing into the combings. The finished spoiler and flap controls just slide into the tubing inside the combings. The yellow handle is the tow release. In the finished model shots, I have place all the graphic labels for the control surfaces.