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Badwolf · Posted: Mon 11 May 2009 21:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tip Daniel, I'll bear that in mind for future builds.

I've now got the fuselage glued together.

Next will be the most tedious part of any aircraft build for me - cleaning up the fuselage seam.

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Badwolf · Posted: Sat 16 May 2009 21:05 pm Post subject:

The fuselage seam has now been cleaned up, and in order to improve the fit of the wing/fuselage join I've made a spreader bar from sprue and glued it in the forward fuselage.

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Ratch · Posted: Sun 17 May 2009 12:21 pm Post subject:

Looking good John

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Badwolf · Posted: Mon 18 May 2009 21:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks Ratch.

I've got the fuselage and wings assembled now, and added the lower part of the nose.

Looks like it's time to break out the filler...

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Disorder · Posted: Mon 18 May 2009 22:14 pm Post subject:

Nice job

Better wing/fuselage fit than I managed on mine.
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Badwolf · Posted: Tue 19 May 2009 20:55 pm Post subject:

Badwolf · Posted: Wed 20 May 2009 21:27 pm Post subject:

Filler has been applied to the root fillet join and the lower nose join.

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Badwolf · Posted: Thu 21 May 2009 21:26 pm Post subject:

The filler has been sanded down.

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Badwolf · Posted: Mon 25 May 2009 21:18 pm Post subject:

I've got the tailplanes on now, and also glued some pieces of sheet styrene into the locating hole for the tail wheel as it's really loose otherwise.

Since this photo was taken I've sanded the styrene down level with the fuselage.
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TopGun · Posted: Tue 26 May 2009 21:25 pm Post subject:

Coming along nicely
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Ratch · Posted: Wed 27 May 2009 07:14 am Post subject:

Good work John

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Badwolf · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009 21:22 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys.

No more photos yet but I've got the innards of the oil cooler and radiator painted and assembled them onto the model, also attached the carburettor intake and the tail wheel. Finally I've undercoated the prop with Hu64 and put 4 coats of Hu24 on the tips.
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Badwolf · Posted: Wed 03 Jun 2009 21:39 pm Post subject:

Basic assembly is now complete, I think it's time to break out the paint.

The main landing gear legs in the kit were quite badly bent and unusable

, luckily I have a Seafire IIIc/Spitfire Vc kit in the stash which has two sets of main gear legs, so I used one set for this build.

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Badwolf · Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009 21:52 pm Post subject:

This evening I've given the model an undercoat of Hu64. Next will be Hu29 dark earth, for this build I'll reverse my normal painting order and do the upper surfaces first as the undersides are metallic aluminium.
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daniel7891 · Posted: Fri 05 Jun 2009 07:11 am Post subject:

Coming along well
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Badwolf · Posted: Tue 09 Jun 2009 21:31 pm Post subject:

I've got the dark earth on now, two coats of Hu29 have been applied.

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Ratch · Posted: Tue 09 Jun 2009 21:37 pm Post subject:

Smooooothe

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dancho · Posted: Tue 09 Jun 2009 22:16 pm Post subject:

Was the landing gear problem a defect in the kit? (Just curious).
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jhl1908 · Posted: Wed 10 Jun 2009 06:15 am Post subject:

Looking good

, Badwolf.

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Badwolf · Posted: Wed 10 Jun 2009 21:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated.