Scratch Building a Mercury Marlin

Fitted the bell crank, leadouts and elevator pushrod. Hinged the elevator using old fashioned ribbon tape hinges. PVA is much easier to use than balsa cement for this job!
Next is to position and fix the fuel tank, solder up the engine mounting bolts to a strip of tin plate and fit to the front bulkhead. Then to finally fix the wing assembly to the fuselage, and complete the underside planking. I thought I might fit a drop off U/C as the model is designed to be hand launched, not an easy thing to do, especially as the model is so small.