All that's left to do is to now make a cut in each side of the rear fuselage.

This cut we then widen a little with the resulting lips pointing outward. This will give us a nice "fairing" between the elevators and the fuselage.

Now after we pushed the elevator in and before we glue it, we want to make sure that the elevator is exactly square to the rudder. This we do simply by bending it.

After all there is nothing worse than a paper model where the geometry is off.

When FG thinks they are good at guessing the shapes of the parts, so am I!

I printed out a second copy of the Goon and picked a part with the matching colour to make myself a filler for the gaping hole in the chin. Also completely by guesswork. So there...!!! And it turned out good right on my first try.

The second printout is also good for something else I had in mind, I wanted to make the louver vents in 3d. In real life they would actually bend inwards but who's gonna know...

You have to be very careful not to cut those little louvers off. I still managed to have one fall off on me, so I had to glue it back on with lots of patience. Then I left some material around them as I cut them out and, as Chip would say, "afix" them at the proper spot on the fuselage.

Right beside it we add that little egg-shaped do-hickey which improves the visuals even more. That do-hickey has a tiny little glue tab, which I of course completely ignored. Just fits better this way.

Then I cut those tiny little vents into the fuselage and the whole thing starts to look pretty spiffy.

We continue with the wings.

Not much to report, except, to get the pesky rear edges straight, I like to fall back on my trusty office clamps. Works exceptionally well!

The parts where the wings butt on to the fuselage are, again, probably pure guesswork.

Once I saw a picture of a model of the Chester Goon whose builder implicitly trusted the drawn shape of the wing roots and the wings stuck up at a 20 degree angle.

The model looked like a duck during mating season... chuckle That's not how I'm going to do it...

I cut back the lower edge of the wing root so that it pretty well matches the upper one. Later it will be covered by fairings anyway.

Now here is something that should not be missing in any FG shop, and that is the trusty old ice-cream stick. It will stiffen the wings and hold them at the proper angle.

You may wonder how on earth are we to expect a straight stick to give us the slight dihedral of the wings?

Easy. We only attach the top halves of the wingskins to the stick, not the bottom halves. Sine the wings are tapered, this will give us the slight dihedral we want on this model. On the original this dihedral was very small, and that's exactly the effect we want.

That said, we cut out the frontmost slits drawn on the fuselage and widen them downwards, enough for the stick to fit through.

This doesn't have to be pretty but we do want to make sure the stick is nice and square. Once it is, glue it in place and attach the wings.

But, as I said, glue the wingskins ONLY TO THE TOP SIDE OF THE STICK and to the fuselage, not the bottom of the stick.

Of course as always the canopy will be made transparent.

The design of the paper canopy is a bit awkward to use as a template for the transparent foil, so I made my own in PhotoShop so that it will remain one single piece.

I fixed the foil on top of the template with "low-tack" tape and then cut it out just like any normal paper part. Then I just had to lift off the foil and remove the tape.

For the frame however, we can use the original part, it is well suited for that by design. At first I applied the "E" shaped part, then the small curved strip along the front.

Finally we do the landing gear.

I embellished gear doors with a cut-out of the stiffening frame which is drawn on the inside of the doors from my second print-out.

Unfortunately in the heat of the battle I forgot to take pictures of the landing gear legs into which I inserted a piece of florist wire that sticks out by about 1/4".

These get pushed into that little hole I made at the upper front of the drawn-on gear doors.

The legs then were attached with crazy glue and mounting the gear doors added a little more support to the gear.

Now before the glue sets, we want to make sure the aircraft is standing nice and square!

And - that's it! The airgoon proudly presents - the goon!!!

Thanks for your interest - Norm

Okay folks,

here are the pictures of the finished goon.

It's crazy what those guys back then were willing to do just to keep themselves from getting bored.

Those machines probably handled like bucking broncos!

The pilots probably didn't care about safety at all, all they wanted was as much speed as possible...

But they are still quite pretty