Hi Przemo! Thank you for looking in and great to hear from you! It is a lovely little kit - the four part fuselage sides actually fit together along the joint lines of the original air-frame, and that helps enormously, also the original had some fairly rough looking joints, so here I guess I can get away with some artistic license! It's quite easy to fill with surface primer if you get little holes (they will be minor!) and sanding and a little re-scribing of the corrugations will help, I'm sure! The only place that really worries me is the wing leading edge, but I just made sure I lined up the corrugations, glued it together well, sanded and restored the dips in the corrugations - should be OK, there's a colour demarcation there anyway!
Hi Gregory, It's always great to have you looking in! Thank You for the encouragement!
Hi Nigel, I think it's a great little kit - unlikely to be superseded by any other. Very accurate and finely moulded - mine was an absolute bargain second hand, so I can only recommend you buy it...
Hi Des! Thank you for the kind words and checking in! It is appreciated...
Hi Rick! It's a pleasure to welcome you! Yes, the kit components are good for the interior... there should be corrugations on the sidewalls though... I admit I'm too lazy to redo that!
But there is some progress, the wings are on and the tailplane is dry fitted, just to see if it lines up. The wing to fuselage joint looks weak, but if you trim it carefully, there is actually a large area of contact, and lots of liquid glue gets a really strong joint!
Then the joints were filled with liquid surface primer, I use the Tamiya one, then trimmed, sanded and the detail restored if needed...
Then I added the assembled radiator and the tailplane was lined up carefully and glued in place; Now the seperate control surfaces (Nice one, Roden!) were all prepared and fitting refined - the mating surfaces needed quite a bit of work but do fit if you're diligent:
That's as far as I've got!
Regards and enjoy your modelling!
Marc
