Santos-Dumont 14 BIS build by FokkerD7 - Model Airways

[FokkerD7]

Hello,

I have found this site late. I am an amateur builder. I had not built anything since the late 60’s (1960 in case you don’t recognize the abbreviated date) I was building plastic kits and trying to understand glue control and painting before a long pause. My CG insisted I do something with my time. She is now regretting getting me started as I am fast running out of room. This is the fourth 1/16 scale aircraft I am working on. I am doing a poor job of recreating the bamboo look. That aside I am trying to understand the installation of the control wheel attached to the port side of the cockpit (?) there is a hole in the control wheel base and the instructions show the control line passing through the hole.But if I glue the piece in place then I would have to drill through a fuselage rod which doesn’t make sense. Am I installing this wrong? Thank you for any assistance.

[gsdpic]

Looks like you are pretty well along in this build.  There is (at least) one other build log of this kit here, by @Greg Davis.  It is a bit hard to tell but it looks like he glued the control wheel to the inside of the frame instead of over the frame.  Look at post 100 on page 4.