To start with these new windows, it seemed to me opportune to start seeing the material options for the new crystals.
So I started taking the appropriate sizes to make them. I have decided to make a single piece to embed in the fuselage and from there to mask the two windows of each side.
- The case of razors to shave. (It is the one that has better transparency, but is relatively thin).
- The CD box. (I had to give it a good polish to remove the scratches and opacity)
- I decided to add an acrylic tray, which I used before to simulate the spinning propellers of my Corsair. I like it because it is the thickest and it would allow me to have better control when positioning it and more margin for filing, sanding and polishing on the outside. (I also had to give a thorough polish
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Studying the space to cut the fuselage, the molding of the wing root is very close to the windows, so that was my lower limit to make the cut (matches horizontally with a panel line to the front, so that it will be the lower base of the cut) ...
I leave in photos the measurements and strokes to make the new windows are more similar to those originally brought by the kit behind the bombs bay ...
And so was the process of surgery ...
Instead of painting with pencil or pen to demarcate the area to be cut, I better delimited it with Tamiya tape. But to make the pieces transparent, I did it upside down, the tape has the required measure of 10 x 32 mm. and I'll just have to file and sand to the edge of the tape.
I chose to do the work on the acrylic and the piece of the CD box, because I think they will be better options, and I do the test in both to see which is better.
But that will be tomorrow and I tell you how things are going.
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