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Continuing work on my Tiger Moth I’ve assembled the ailerons on the lower wing.

These are the assembled control rods.

Here’s the ailerons after cutting them free from the wing. I need to be use more care to cut them straight on the next one.

Paper hinges hold the ailerons to the wing. These were a little awkward to install. You have to line up the three hinges and the control rod. I should have used a jig to cut the slots for the paper hinges. I got some of them crooked and one hinge was a little bent when installed.

And here’s the finished wing.

I’ve spent an evening on my new project and have the fuselage assembled.

One thing to watch out for is cutting the pushrod tubes to length. The instructions tell you to cut them too short. If you cut them too short, you will not be able to insert the servo pushrods later when completing the assembly. I decided to leave them untrimmed. I can cut them later.

I’m very impressed with GWS. This model is much easier to assemble than the Pico Cub I built a couple of years ago. The manual still suffers from poor translation to English but the pictures make it workable. I’m planning to keep this stock except for some reinforcement around the landing gear.