Crashing together a new XIV and the spine of Airfix’s most recent Vb, and so far it’s going swimmingly!!!
butchery begins! The kits share an ancestor so line up beautifully.
I used the Vb fuselage frame to keep everything in the right place....
not too shoddy if I do say so myself!
The join follows the main longeron line - the kink needed some fairly careful filing.
Compares nicely with Jumpei Temma’s incomparable side profile drawings and also with (still!) the only other game in town, Aeroclub’s mk21 conversion.
Airfix have got a great base model for both of these kits - everything just works!
Now, where’s that other fuselage half?
Cheers m’dears