I covered the fuselage with the first coat of paint. It is metallic gray. I am delighted, because my rivets come out really well and in addition, the plane start…

The windshield of the Potez 58 is a bit tortuous to put in place with a very curved frame and many rivets to reproduce To make it, I cut the…

I have summarized on video the 500 hours I spent building the Potez 58. Below, the first part of the video. The second part… when the plane is finished. https://youtu.be/kL9Tw2e9ldc

There were a lot of details to reproduce on the engine hood. Apart from the structural lines that I had already made, I reproduced the rivets last night. Long work…

I continued working on my engine hood with the closing system. To do this, I took the piano hinge to which, I removed the axle and I blew up a…

After finishing the doors, I start the mockup details of the front part of the Potez 58. Below is an enlarged photo of the front part with the engine access…

After having cut the doors (see my previous posts) on the sides of the fuselage, I now had to provide an opening and closing fixing system.I used the mini piano…

Everything is said in the title. I started by tracing the doors on the fuselage. Then cut with dremel. Straight lines were cut with a disc. The curved parts were…

I finished wrapping the different faces of the fuselage. As a reminder, I put a layer of nitrocellulose coating, followed by a light sanding to remove the wood fibers and…

I started finishing the fuselage in September.I used a 25 g per square meter of glass fiber bonded to the nitrocellulose coating.The fuselage is sanded to rectify as much as…