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Flash Flash · Silver Star Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 2938

Those panels arent even close on fitting

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Brews · Posted: Mon 13 Jul 2009 01:50 am Post subject:

Ratch · Posted: Mon 13 Jul 2009 13:23 pm Post subject:

Ratch · Posted: Tue 14 Jul 2009 19:21 pm Post subject:

I need to do some airbrushing next, but on my current shift and with Friday's JBO Jolly Boys

it will be Saturday before I'm able to fire up the compressor

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chrisbh · Posted: Wed 15 Jul 2009 19:56 pm Post subject:

Ratch · Posted: Wed 15 Jul 2009 20:27 pm Post subject:

Maybe I was unlucky

Maybe Owen could enlighten us with the fit of his

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Owen · Posted: Wed 15 Jul 2009 21:38 pm Post subject:

I've just looked back at the last page or so - you seem to have had many of the problems that I had. I can remember that there was a lot of jiggling about with parts, filling, sanding and then further modifications.

Regarding the Wing Roots, I got the root itself to match up as close as possible, although this left a large gap on the wing leading edges. I decided to permanently glue down the panels for the machine guns/cannons on the wing root as they covered up some of the poor fit quite well.

From recollection, the u/c bay parts caused some problems with the fit of the engine block which in turn caused problems with the panels. I shaved off quite a bit of the u/c to get it to fit a bit better and plugged up gaps with smoothed out filler.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9720/31152735.jpg
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5315/dsc0027d.jpg

From looking at your photos, I'd say that the end ring needs to be more vertical in relation to the fuselage - it looks like it's off on an angle. It took a lot of gluing, setting and re-setting to get it to sit at the right angle.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5448/dsc0802m.jpg

I can remember having the same headache regarding the panels as you have though, as the fit was so poor and the detail in the engine bay was too good to cover up. I found that taking the engine out made things a lot easier and I also ommited the fuselage mounted machine guns until the build was finished to get the positioning of the panels right. I ended up joining the panels into one removable unit, but I do like the look of your solution with the extra detail

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Ratch · Posted: Thu 16 Jul 2009 14:39 pm Post subject:

Thanks Owen

its not just mine then

Funny, I seem to recall reading that this was a good kit

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Brews · Posted: Thu 16 Jul 2009 15:01 pm Post subject:

I always thought it was a good kit.
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Owen · Posted: Thu 16 Jul 2009 16:26 pm Post subject:

It is a good kit, I was impressed by the level of detail - I guess it depends what you interprit "good" as - for well fitting parts, it certainly isn't good but with a bit of work it all comes together

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Ratch · Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009 16:36 pm Post subject:

Got the airbrush out and here's the result

RLM 76 was sprayed yesterday, RLM 75 this morning and RLM 74 this afternoon

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Badwolf · Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009 18:22 pm Post subject:

Camo looks good.

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Ratch · Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 13:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks John

I've just added the X213/RLM 04 Gelb to the underside of the nose, the fuselage band & wing tips Pilot

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Ratch · Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:00 pm Post subject:

Peeling back the masking tape revealed some overspray

so I'll have to re-spray the RLM 76

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Brews · Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:38 pm Post subject:

Won't exhaust stains cover that little bit behind the cowling? Three pipes come out of there, IIRC.
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Ratch · Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 20:49 pm Post subject:

Yes, but there's some on the wing too

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Owen · Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 21:12 pm Post subject:

Looking very nice so far

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Ratch · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009 17:18 pm Post subject:

I've started putting the transfers on

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Brews · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009 17:20 pm Post subject:

That seems to brighten it up a bit!
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TimJ · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009 17:21 pm Post subject:

Nice work Ratch.
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