Not me, not that crafty. After an extensive search for exit covers I found them at Aircraft International - The exit covers come just like what you see, I painted them white. I extended the exit hole, it didn't fix the cable rub, cut away some Ultracote and used a little canopy glue to make sure the exit covers will stay put. The promo picture of the Sukhoi shows TREYES used them too, but didn't paint them white. 3 inch control arm is the answer.
Looks nice. I am going to try for a little more scale panel and location plus a 3D cockpit picture/decal. After I saw the full scale drawing and saw where the cockpit fits in the fuselage I decided I had a chance to make it somewhat like that. I have to do something during the off season so I'm fixing the rubbing cables, copying your engine decal/cooling idea, putting in a cockpit/dashboard decal plus that little grab handle and adding some fake brake lines to the landing gear.
Yep, that was the first production PAU 50 cc Sukhoi! GREAT flying plane! It was my first round-cowl plane, so it was a bit different than the Edges and Extras that I was used to at the time, but it was an absolute BLAST to fly! I finally sold it a couple of years ago with many hundreds of flights on it. If I remember right, I moved the CG a bit farther forward than how I normally set up an Extra or an Edge to get it to MY liking, but it flies sooo clean, the roll-rate was blistering and tumbles were off the charts!!!
