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1. The core of the centre wing and spars, which the paper will be folded around.
2. Much later, the cenre wing and outer wings attached with filler smoothing the joins.
3. Where the engines emerge from the wings.

The paper That forms the surface is about 150 to 180 gsm weight, it was the cover off a pad of paper, painted black both sides, this ensures that there is little or no expansion and warping from future painting. It also ensures the finished model doesn't become translucent under bright lighting.

Then it was a matter of drawing and cutting a shape that would fold around the skeleton parts. Glueing it on was a process of first glueing it to the underside, then when that is dry, folding it over the top side and glueing it. This required pins and clothes pegs to hold it together while it dried. When dried, it was trimmed with scissors.

The three wing parts were assembled.
To smooth over the joins and overlaps, I used some Micro-Fill.

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1. The tips of the wings or tails, at this point the shape of the Fw 1000x1000x1000B is appearing.
2. First part of the balsa nose section as the glue dries. The aircraft's shape becomes more familiar.
3. The cockpit is well glazed, so it needs quite a bit of improvised detail.

The nose section is cut, carved and sanded out of balsa wood.

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1. Glazing applied and framework painted on in RLM02. The overall colour is light blue at the moment.
2. Upper camouflage is a dark green. Yellow recognition stripes are on for effect rather than technical accuracy.
3. Green goes over the grey framework. This aircraft turns out to be ideal for detailed cockpits.

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1. Pitot tube added.
2. Radio aerial.
3. Camouflage and Balkenkruz added.