Rui Silva Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Hi all, Further fun with Aires resin: to use the resin fin and rudder (that has much better detail) one needs to file away the rear (very easy) and front "tabs" (not so easy...) from the original kit parts. A trial fit and it's obvious the resin part is a bit short in lenght and a shim of about 1mm needs to be glued between the kit's spine and the resin fin. Notice the resin part has the correct "fairing over a spine" section at the rear (below the rudder) and that the parabrake housing below the rudder is a "simple" spine shape, check the detail photo. As reported in several build reviews the kit's tailcone part is a bit bulbous and does not fit exactly, more dremmeling in sight... 🙄 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 That seems a lot of work Rui. How much of an improvement is the fin over the standard kit part? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rui Silva Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) On 2/17/2020 at 6:54 PM, Col. said: That seems a lot of work Rui. How much of an improvement is the fin over the standard kit part? Surface detail is the same, you get a separate rudder in the resin set but, most importantly, the intake in the fin's leading edge is just a flat part in the kit but very well done in resin. Edited February 19, 2020 by Rui Silva Text 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 The Aires fin also has a bunch of fasteners at the bottom which looks very nice. Otherwise you can scratch the intake like this If I can manage it, then so can other people 😎 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewy Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 A worthy addition there christer👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 wow there is a difference, small, but now you know it's there it'll bug you for sure. It looks to be a relatively straight forward fix. That resin tail fin is much nicer! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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