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Hi again,

 

The Eduard PE set for the Defiant comes with a fret full of exterior details (grids, wheel well and undercarriage detail and some other bits). Here it is, with some parts already off:

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The missing parts were grids for the radiators:

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These parts with grids go inside the radiator housing (plastic part C1). The radiator flap in plastic should be replaced by PE parts 50 and 43:

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First, I marked the cut lines with a nº 11 blade:

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This area of the part was cut off with a mini-saw. The PE parts were also cut off the fret and bent to shape:

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The parts of the inner mechanism of the gun turret were glued together and the corresponding PE detail for the gunner's seat was cut of the fret:

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Result:

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To be continued. Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

 

 

 

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Hi again,

 

A lot of the PE detail goes in the wheel wells, to improve their walls:

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It should be noted that the instructions show PE parts 44 and 45 wrongly positioned. These parts should be glued with their tapering following the tapering of the well walls, so the narrower end goes near the gear leg and the holes on the parts go near the area where the wheel gets stored:

Defiant_Undercarriage_Well_Left_2.jpg

 

Parts 54 and 55 are also shown upside down, as shown in this picture (look for the 4 screw heads on the bottom of the panel, just above the well door):

Defiant_Undercarriage_Well_Left.jpg

 

Here are the front panels already glued in place:

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The side panels:

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IMAG5620

 

Here's the tool I used to bend the curved parts. These parts were first roughly bent to shape and then glued by sections in order to get the final shape:

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IMAG5621

 

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IMAG5623

 

The straight panels were are glued in place:

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IMAG5624

 

The mechanisms to be installed on these straight panels are made up of a PE part like this:

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IMAG5625

 

This part was bent to shape in two steps, as shown in the following two pictures:

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Finally, the parts were glued to the panels:

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IMAG5628

 

The work on the wells was concluded with the bits around the gear legs:

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IMAG5629

 

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The gear legs are not glued in place yet and still need to be cleaned from moulding marks and excess plastic from the sprue gates.

 

I finished this phase of the build by carving away plastic from the wing edge were the step board recoiled:

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The corresponding PE part will be painted on the fret and glued in place in the end.

 

To be continued.  Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi again,

 

Continuing with the updates.

 

The transparent parts for the wing lights were bathed in Aqua Gloss, to improve brilliance and transparency and left to dry for a few days:

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Then, they were painted silver in the back and interior green on the sides:

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This was done so to simulate the real thing that can be seen in this photo:

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The transparent parts were glued in place. Fit is not too bad:

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IMAG5640

 

There are PE parts to install around the lights:

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IMAG5643

 

These PE parts were bent to shape and glued in place:

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To be continued. Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

 

 

 

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Hi again,

 

This post should bring the thread up to date.

 

The kit has no detail for the navigation lights on the tips of the wing. However, these are quite prominent features, as shown in the following picture:

Defiant_Navigation-Light_Right.jpg

 

The inside seems to be silver or aluminium clad and the lights are green on the starboard tip and red on the port tip.

 

To simulate these lights, I decided to use a technique I first used in my Bf 109 G10 build, a few years ago, which consists on using pieces of transparent sprue shaped appropriately.

 

First step, was cutting off the tips of the wings, along the navigation light panel lines. This was accomplished with a nº 11 blade:

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IMAG5632

 

Next, pieces of sprue were roughly cut using a mini saw:

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I happened to choose a thick piece of transparent sprue, so I carved away part of the transparent plastic with a nº 11 blade:

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As shown in the following picture, the pieces were still a bit large compared to the plastic pieces that had been removed from the wing tips:

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So, I reduced them further, sawing them to about half the size using a mini saw. The resulting pieces had now an appropriate dimension to fit on the wing tips and still have enough material to be safely filed and sanded to shape. But before that, it was necessary to simulate the navigation lamps. For that, I drilled small holes on the mating surfaces using a 0.5mm drill:

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IMAG5636

 

These holes were filled in with transparent red and transparent green, using a nº 0 detail brush:

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IMAG5637

 

Next, the mating surfaces were painted silver and the parts were allowed to dry:

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IMAG5638

 

I used slow CA to glue the parts in place:

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The parts were, then, filed and sanded to shape using, first, a small straight metal file and, then, sanding sticks of increasingly finer grain. Work proceeded slowly and carefully to ensure the proper shape was achieved. The following pictures show the results:

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The parts still had to be polished to become transparent. For this I used a set of micromesh pads of increasingly finer grain, and finished with a polishing fluid. Here's the end result:

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The wing can now be glued to the fuselage and the seams and joins can be taken care of.

 

That's all for now. Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

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Nice work Jaime :) 

That PE certainly adds some finer detail and those scratched nav lights look 'the business'. Good job!

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9 hours ago, CedB said:

Nice work Jaime :) 

That PE certainly adds some finer detail and those scratched nav lights look 'the business'. Good job!

 

7 hours ago, stevehnz said:

Stunning work on display here Jaime. I've just had a catch up & much enjoyed it. Your wee curved mini saw intrigues me, whose is that? I can see a need developing there. :)

Steve.

Ced, Steve,

 

Thank you very much for your interest and kind words :)

 

The micro saw comes in a set of PE saws by RB productions:

 

http://www.radubstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=77_112&products_id=358

 

They're really good. I bought them on a recommendation by Ced :)

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

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Some really nice detail Jaime. You've put a lot of work into your Defiant. 

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4 hours ago, Fatboydim said:

Some really nice detail Jaime. You've put a lot of work into your Defiant. 

Thanks a lot, Joe! Your kind words are always very much welcome :)

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

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Hi again,

 

I don't think I'll finish this build in time for this GB but I've been progressing and here's an update.

 

I finally glued the wing and fuselage together. The aircraft was left for a few days while the glue cured:

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In  the meantime, I did some work on the main undercarriage legs, as there were some PE parts to add. The PE parts are nº 55 and 61 in the fret. A bit on the left leg has already been cut off for installation of PE part nº 61:

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PE parts nº 61 glued in place:

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The legs ready. The break line will be installed in the end:

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A few days later, the clamps were removed and here was the model:

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There were some joins and gaps requiring attention.

 

The wing root on the port wing was a bit recessed from the fuselage:

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The root of the starboard wing was better:

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IMAG5671

 

There were some considerable gaps on the front of the wing-to-fuselage join:

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IMAG5672

 

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IMAG5673

 

The back of the wing-to-fuselage join also needs some work:

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Before starting to work on these joins, I glued the rudder in place:

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and the horizontal stabilisers:

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IMAG5676

 

The alignment of tail fin and horizontal stabilisers is perfect out of the box:

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Here's a top view of the model as it was at this point in time:

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To be continued. Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

 

 

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I just tried the wing to fuselage fit on my Hurricane today and it looks about the same as your Defiant. I tried a bit of sanding but it didn't help much. Looks like I'll be using some more Mr. Surfacer 1000, unless you have a different, better plan.

 

 

Chris

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2 hours ago, CedB said:

Nice Jaime. Your work with tiny PE continues to impress :) 

Thanks Ced! The PE fret also includes replacement wheel well doors!

2 hours ago, dogsbody said:

I just tried the wing to fuselage fit on my Hurricane today and it looks about the same as your Defiant. I tried a bit of sanding but it didn't help much. Looks like I'll be using some more Mr. Surfacer 1000, unless you have a different, better plan.

 

 

Chris

Sorry to know about that, Chris. I used thick CA followed by Perfect Plastic Putty to fill in the gaps.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

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8 minutes ago, jrlx said:

Thanks Ced! The PE fret also includes replacement wheel well doors!

Sorry to know about that, Chris. I used thick CA followed by Perfect Plastic Putty to fill in the gaps.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

All I have right now is the Mr. Surfacer 1000. Hopefully soon, I'll get down to Edmonton and have time to peruse the hobbyshops to see what else is there for thin putty/filler.

 

 

Chris

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Nice progress Jaime. The undercarriage looks very detailed. 

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6 hours ago, Fatboydim said:

Nice progress Jaime. The undercarriage looks very detailed. 

Thanks Joe! Yes, the PE bits from the Eduard sets improve the detail of the model considerably.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

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Hi again,

 

The gaps between wing and fuselage shown previously were first filled in with thick CA. Next, I filed and sanded the problematic joins,  including the wing roots. In the following case, I had to glue a bit of sprue to repair some damage I did to the wing leading edge while filing and sanding the wing root:

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IMAG5681

 

It was roughly shaped with a nº 11 blade and later finished with sanding sticks:

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After a lot of filing and sanding, I filled in the remaining gaps and scraps with PPP:

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IMAG5684

 

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I allowed the filler to dry for a few days. Then, it was removed using an old paintbrush moistened in water. This avoided further sanding and damage to the plastic but I had to be careful to avoid completely removing the filler from the gaps and scraps.

 

Next, I rescribed the panel lines that were not aligned across the fuselage and wing halves. I'll show, as an example of the technique used, the rescribing of the front panel line around the nose of the plane.

 

The misaligned panel lines had been first filled in with PPP:

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Now I used Tamiya's 2 mm contour tape as a guide for rescribing:

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After rescribing and removing the tape, the edges of the new panel line are a bit rough:

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To smooth the edges and clean the line, I used a bit of Tamiya's Extra Thin glue, as suggested in a recent build by Giorgio ( @giemme )

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IMAG5689

 

In the end, this is how the model turned out:

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IMAG5692

 

Some details of the problematic joins and gaps after all this effort:

 

Port wing root

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Starboard wing root:

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IMAG5694

 

Front wing-to-fuselage join: starboard side:

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IMAG5695

 

Front wing-to-fuselage join: port side:

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IMAG5696

 

Back wing-to-fuselage join

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IMAG5697

 

Leading edges of wing around the fuselage. The vertical panel lines and the curve shaped panel lines on the wing roots were completely rescribed.

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To be continued. Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

 

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3 hours ago, CedB said:

Nice filling Jaime, looking much smoother :) 

Thanks, Ced! Filing and sanding joins and seams is always a very boring phase of the build but all work invested here results in a better looking model.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

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Hi again,

 

As usual, this thread is again way behind the present state of the build and, of course, wasn't finished before the deadline of the RAF Anniversary GB. I'll try to bring it up to date in these and the following posts.

 

After taking care of all the seams and joins, I did some work on the remaining small parts.

 

The propeller parts were removed from the sprues:

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and glued together:

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IMAG5700

 

The following parts are used in the interior of the gun turret:

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IMAG5701

 

The raised detail on part 9 had to be removed, Later, it will be replaced by a PE detailing bit:

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IMAG5702

 

The guns were improved by drilling holes on the tips:

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IMAG5680

 

The same was done on the exhausts:

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IMAG5703

 

Next, I had to add some detail to the port wing trailing edge, near the wing root, where the step board recoiled. The following picture shows a slight indentation on the edge:

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This is the result after cutting some plastic:

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IMAG5704

 

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IMAG5705

 

Next, the instrument panel was glued in place (again, as it was knocked off in the previous handling phases), as well as the wind shield and fixed part of the canopy behind the cockpit.

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There were still a few PE bits to add before starting the main painting. First, two plates for the port wing (nº 40 and 41 in the picture):

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IMAG5708

 

Here they are, glued in place:

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And also PE part 60:

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which goes on the leading edge of the starboard horizontal stabilizer:

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IMAG5710

 

I decided to paint the PE wheel well door parts still in the fret, to avoid any risk of accidental bending, but there were some small parts that could be glued before painting. One of those can be seen just below the PE doors, ready for gluing:

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IMAG5714

 

These small parts were glued in the center of the inner faces of the wheel doors, as shown here:

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IMAG5715

 

I still had some masking to do. I applied masking tape to the mating faces of the radiator and carburetor housings and the underside of the wing:

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IMAG5712

 

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IMAG5713

 

Cockpit and turret openings were also masked:

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IMAG5717

 

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IMAG5720

 

A last small detail that I added was a metal shaft on the port side of the fuselage, between the cockpit and turret, which can be seen in the following original picture and was used to help the gunner climb to the turret:

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I did it with a piece of 0.5 mm evergreen rod, slightly filed on one of the tips:

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IMAG5719

 

Finally, all the small parts were readied for painting:

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To be continued. Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

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14 minutes ago, stevehnz said:

I can see a stunna in progress, nice work there Jaime. :)

Steve.

Thanks, Steve! I hope it lives up to the expectations!

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

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Hi again,

 

Continuing with updating this thread.

 

I was ready for starting the main painting phase. I took some decisions regarding colours and weathering which determined the primers to use.

 

First, the propeller has yellow blade tips, the rotor cone is mainly white with a black ring nearer to the fuselage and the blades are black. So, I decided to use Alclad's white primer as the first coat (as white for the cone and base primer for the yellow tips) and Alclad's black primer for the black areas. The black primer will be used for almost all other small parts and the model, in order to provide some form of pre-shading, so it spares me the need of using matte black paint for the propeller.

 

The only other exception will be the main gear leg parts and pitot tube. As I intend to use Alclad Chrome, which is a high-shine tone, for the "olios" and pitot tube, I'll have to use Alclad's gloss black primer instead of the regular Alclad black primer.

 

So, here's the propeller after application of white primer and yellow on the tips:

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The cone and tips were masked:

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IMAG5723

 

The black primer was applied and the masking removed:

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IMAG5724

 

Before applying the black primer to almost everything, I applied gloss black primer to the gear leg parts and pitot tube:

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IMAG5722

 

The regular black primer, as said before, was applied to the model:

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IMAG5725

 

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IMAG5726

 

to the PE fret, on both sides:

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IMAG5727

 

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IMAG5728

 

and to all other small parts. Here we can also see chrome already applied to the gear legs and pitot tube:

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IMAG5729

 

The following pictures show how the joins and seams turned out, as revealed by the black primer.

 

Port wing root:

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Starboard wing root:

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IMAG5731

 

Front joins between fuselage and wing:

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IMAG5732

 

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IMAG5733

 

Back joins between fuselage and wing:

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It seems all the effort I put in taking care of the seams and joins and re-scribing misaligned panel lines paid off.

 

To be continued. Thanks for looking.

 

Jaime

 

 

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