Yeah, it is Sunday morning and I am sitting at the PC!

It is a beautiful morning, temp currently sitting at 8C wind about 9km/h. In my book that is just perfect. Mum is visiting, wife is visiting, both have to be dropped at their respective residences during the day so it is no use to go to the club as I will just arrive and then have to pack up again.

Well, that is only part of the frustration. See, I started assembling the GP Christen Eagle. Now this ARF kit is, well, old, and as we all know, the covering gets a bit brittle, it does not want to shrink as nicely, and then there is the fact that these were some of the earlier ARF's and were not as well made as the kits of today.
The first problem I encountered was that the bottom wing, once joined and the dowels fitted does not fit! The holes for the dowels are already elongated, how much more is needed?!

I cut away almost half of the dowel and then decided to work on the wing saddle.

I can hear you shouting "incidence! don't fiddle with the incidence!" To late, she cried, and then died. I measured the incidence between the vertical stab and the wing.It is both at 0 at this time and I am sure I will be able to work something out.
My word! That shallow engine box on this kit.

What a ball ache. I must admit the engine I am bolting to this frame does not make it any easier as the choke and throttle arms on the carb is absolutely impossible. To further hamper installation old "Two Toe Joe", the cowboy that is fast on the draw, but even faster on the trigger, went and fixed the custom choke arm with red Locktite, just to ensure that it will be impossible to move it ever again, and then in the wrong position as well.

After carving away what once was a perfect firewall, drilling all the mounting holes and then some more, I have the engine hanging from the front of the fuzz and the throttle and choke cables routed. Oh, goody, goody gumdrops!!
Maybe the idea a couple of years ago was that the modeler will like to glue in one or two pieces of wood himself so as to feel like he did some construction. Well, they should have given me a couple of pieces of scrap wood and a tube of Alcolin and told me to go sit outside and make a tomato box!
Why in this world will they make me fit a servo tray deep in the bowls of this monster where it is impossible to reach and which would have been way easier to do while putting the fuzz together?!!

After wrestling the tray into position I realized I never glued the stand-off in place. Then, once in position, I could not reach in there with glue!!!

Please don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with the kit, it all boils down to building skills, of which I have zip. No, zip,zip!! Nada, nothing, zero.....
If there is anybody out there that has put this kit together, please do not hesitate to add some advise. It will be appreciated.
Once I have all the troops back at their stations I will have an attempt at gluing the rudder and elevators in. If time permits, I will fit all the servos and put the extensions in as well.
Hey, isn't it the Moto GP today!! I must go watch the qualifying and then the rest late this afternoon. I hope my man Lorenzo is back up to speed. Actually I am a Yamaha guy. Pitty though that Ben Spies did not shape. He did very well in SBK though.