A Long Day - Part 2:
Blending Scuttle to Cockpit Sides:
I needed to work out how the front cockpit corners were going to work if there was no lip in front of the dash.
As my original thoughts were to make the lip deeper at the corners to cover the ends of the Spitfire bulkhead.
This is the view of the inside, where the frame joins the bulkhead.
I can run a plywood panel along the frame so that the bulkhead make a nice 90 degree join.
So rather than cover the view of the end of the bulkhead with a lip sitting in front of it.
I will try to blend the bulkhead to the cockpit sides, although the cardboard doesn't really help illustrate this.
Plus the plywood would extend further upwards as well.
Either way, that is one less thing to worry about for now.
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Locking Bonnet Pins:
I had a couple of these brackets lying around, but there were too small.
As what I'd forgotten is the bonnet lip on the new scuttle is a long way in front of the bulkhead.
The pins would sit somewhere around here, or maybe a bit closer to the bonnet lip.
Which means a bracket bolted to the bulkhead would need to extend 6 inches (or a bit less) to support the threaded rod..
So I will have a look for a longer bracket, so make something myself.
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Cockpit Sides:
On the surface, it appears one side of the body shell is "fatter" than the other.
But I also need the sides to work relative to the frame underneath.
So I pressed a plywood off cut up against the frame rails.
This allowed me to mark where the internal panelling would touch the inside of the body shell.
This is what the markings look like on the underside.
But there is also the added confusion of the frame actually running at an angle to contend with.
I ran a length of wood from the edge of the bulkhead to the rear corner of the frame work.
I should be able to re-create this line on the underside of the body shell.
As you can see the angle of the framework here.
So I need to run the internal panels at the same angle as the frame.
But try to keep the top edge of the cockpit sides running square to the front and rear edges of the cockpit.
I am sure I will be able to work this out eventually.
End of Part 2...