Hi,
I decided to challenge myself by trying to replicate a Gerald Scarborough Airfix Annual #5 1975 scratch build of a Robey Gunbus on a trailer towed by a Daimler lorry. I guess this was the time when scratchbuilding was the norm for "real modellers" - or at least those that subscribed to the Airfix Magazine.
You can see the prototype and Scarborough's finished model below.
There's no kit of this model in 1/72. The Airfix Annual includes scale plans that I used for dimensions. This was not trivial work and "mistakes were made".
As this is the first WWI biplane I've ever built, there's one detail about the rigging that I don't understand despite staring at the plans, examining photos, and inspecting the photos of the Stephen Foster Gunbus scratch build .
Specifically, there are control horns on each side of the nacelle (not yet added on my model). Here's a screen shot from Foster's model showing what I'm talking about (see red arrow).
My rigging questions are:
Q1: Where do the two cables from the top/bottom of the control horn go? From pictures, they seem to go to the forward inner strut affixed to the fuselage but then where?
Q2: Some cable(s) must attach to the rudder. Where is the other end of these cables? How did those cables avoid the pusher propeller?
Progress to date ...