The miliput worked nicely and has now been sanded to shape. Here's its new nose....
I'm happy with that, but I think it's still a little too narrow, so I may yet widen it a tad.
That left the rear end to sort out. The top deck is too high, the sides should slope more to an apex. Here I've marked out where the changes are needed....
The tape marks where the apex should be, up to the pencil line, where it starts to slope upwards to the cockpits.
The first step was simple enough, out with the big file and file the top down....
Those of a nervous disposition may wish to look away....the sides were attacked with a 6" half round second cut file, which made light work of them, but it wasn't pretty.....
You can now see why I packed the fuselage with miliput! One small hole at the top front but otherwise ok. That was then refined with sanding sticks, and I have given them a skim of PPP to fill any irregularities. It's now sitting waiting for that to go off before I finalise the shape.
Thanks for looking in!
Ian
