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Update: 01 March 2005
Basic cleanup and assembly of the resin parts have been completed. The
Black Box instructions need quite a bit of study to determine which parts
go exactly where !!
However once the penny drops the cockpit comes together nicely.
Black Box warns you in the instructions that modification to the Monogram
fuselage half's is needed. They are not kidding. You can see below the
amount of work with plastic card and Dremmel tool I had to do to undertake
to hide the large gaps. |
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Update: 07 Mar 2005
In preparation for fitting the Black Box replacement resin wings, the kit
wing joint slots have been filled and backed with plastic-card. This will
form the basis for an anchor into which brass pins will slot thus giving
the wing to fuselage joint strength.
The resin, plastic-card and kit parts have received the coat of primer. All looking good so far. |
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Update: 02 May 2005
Painting has proceeded nicely. A little trouble was experienced in the
positioning of the front cockpit instrument panel. By my eye the whole
panel was 3-4mm too far forward, so some minor surgery was needed to move
it into the correct position.. |
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Update: 10 May 2005
With the cockpit finished, I have turned my attention to the Wingfold set.
This set requires some modifications to the kit fuselage in order to accept
the resin exhausts.
As the resin wings roots do not come with any locating pins for the fuselage
join, the modeller is left to either live with a butt joint (not a wise
choice) or provide their own locating pins for alignment and of course
strength. As you can see from the final pic in todays update, I had a couple
of attempts at getting the pins in the right position |
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