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Welcome aboard, Louise!
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The next fuselage section is ready to attach. You may notice that it is not actually attached in this photo. That's because the two sections have an incredibly tight fit. I'm not even 100% certain that I can get them to go together. But I decided to wait until the next session before working further on this conundrum. (BTW, I have been sanding down all of the bulkheads in anticipation of just such fit issues as this. It hasn't gone quite to plan. Also BTW, that's not a tear in the aft section -- it's a cut where part of the piece folds down to create part of the cockpit canopy slide rail.)
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I can think of many things that are more "fun" than doing rigging in 1/250 scale -- like licking a cactus, prepping for a colonoscopy, or being forced to sit through a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie marathon. 😜
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If you go back to the photo of my new shelving, you'll notice that all of my models are angled to starboard.
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Hey, @Shipyard sid. The photo links in this build log are all broken. Any possibility of getting them fixed?
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So, here is the forward fuselage glued together, along with the patch of the "hideous seam." It is really hard, for me at least, to get a close match for four-color offset printing -- tinted paint just can't replicate exactly the tone and saturation of all the variously colored dots of a printed part. This is about the best I could do, and the result doesn't look too terrible to my eye. It looks worst when viewed straight on, as in this shot, and looks less obvious at other angles.
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P-51D Mustang by CDW - FINISHED - Dragon - 1:32 Scale
ccoyle replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I don't build "cars model", but If my granddaughter bought me something like that, you bet I'd find a place to prominently display it! -
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P-51D Mustang by CDW - FINISHED - Dragon - 1:32 Scale
ccoyle replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Hmm . . . card publishers and plastic kit manufacturers seem to have an affinity for the same subjects.
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That's actually quite common in kits these days. The big problem, though, for this particular aircraft is the feathered edges between the brown and green areas of camouflage. Such edges are difficult to replicate neatly. But for this particular seam (and whatever others may result from my misalignment mishap), I'm determined to put it out of mind until I'm ready to attach the forward fuselage. No sense fretting about it before I get there.
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Some progress on the forward fuselage, starting with the skins, joiner strips, and joiner tabs cut out and edge colored, then glued together to make the four fuselage sections. Then the skins are shaped and glued into tubes, here shown with their bulkheads. After some sanding to assure that the fits weren't too tight, the bulkheads were then glued in and allowed to dry. Here's the first two sections glued together and test-fitted to the cockpit section. You can see where one of the "hideous seams" I described earlier will occur, though it is not as bad as I feared it might be. And that's it for today.
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What? Create extra work?? 😧
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Which is why I double-checked the fit before gluing and got bit anyway. But, happily, seams can be fixed -- they can be papered over, one might say.
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Albatros by Dulrakk - OcCre - 1:100
ccoyle replied to Dulrakk's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
A 10 km spool? 😯
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