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Normally, in constructing the Guillows shelf model the kit procedure would be to attach the other fuselage side and nose formers and then the fuselage top sheet. This would then finish the fuselage frame and it would be sanded to shape. This now leaves the fuselage with a flat bottom that needs to covered with a paper panel cut from the plan. When we built these as a kid we built them per the plan, but the flat bottom fuselage seemed to me that it could be improved upon.
So now as we build the shelf models we add some more wood to the lower fuselage. First the formers are notched and strips added.
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A 3/32 panel is glued to the under forward fuselage and 1/16 tail panel w/strips is formed.
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The tail panel is glued in place.
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Finally the top panel is glued in place and now we have a fully enclosed fuselage box which can be carved and sanded into the cylindrical form of the B-29.
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