Sopwith Dolphin - not much progress

Apologies for the lack of posts recently. I've been working on getting the upper wings into place, but in such a slow and cack-handed manner that I'm still not quite there yet.

Sopwith Dolphin - radiators

I've spent the last few days making radiators. I wasn't going to originally. I've got a resin kit of the Dolphin, and my original intention was that the radiators were the only bits I was going to use from it. But when I looked at them closely, I saw that they were, to be honest, little more than blobs. So, as I said to myself more than two years ago when I first got the resin kit, I can do better.

Sopwith Dolphin - looking a bit more like a Sopwith Dolphin now

You can probably tell what it is by now

I've made some real progress over the last few days and it's all looking quite promising, I think.

Sopwith Dolphin - cabane struts

I've added the cabane struts, with a bit of cross-bracing, and here is how they look. This was an unbelievably fiddly job - the sort where you have to get up and walk about after every strut and bracing wire. But done now. Phew!

Sopwith Dolphin - cockpit nearly finished

I've nearly finished the cockpit at last. The new details are the joystick and a tiny instrument mounted between the Vickers guns.

Sopwith Dolphin - seat finished

At last, I've got the seat finished, and here it is:

Sopwith Dolphin - Vickers guns in place

I've finally got the Vickers guns into place and I'm quite pleased with how they look.