Good evening guys, nice to be back after Easter vacations (during which in fact everybody in the family were sick). Well at least i will pay you back with some progress of the ''beast''.
Well these are the kit covers of the landing gear corrected for the mold marks. They are not going to be used but they are going to be the ''plan b'' in case something happens with the PE.
...and here you can see the ones that Part provides, excellent detail dont you think?
Some small items corrected on the kit gear legs some others were added and you can also see the kits wheels which have nothing to be jealous of the resign ones, great detail.
Next are the bomb bay doors, also here Part rules, better detailed than the Eduard's ones, the only remark is the absence of the small access door in one of them, but that was easily fixed with a part of adhesive aluminum tape.
Here dry fitted, each part of the doors have to be painted separately in order to avoid any misspaintings.
Next it was time for a little surgery on thw wings, the plastic flaps heve to be cut in order for the Eduard ones to be placed later.
Unfortunately a quick dry fit revealed a major problem which i will have to face when the time comes. Eduard provides the flaps, landing and dive ones, to be positioned, in most cases, both in the open position. I want to build the aircraft ready for take of, so i will place the dive flaps in the closed position but as you can see the dive ones are a bit shorter than they should be.
Next it was time for the wheel wells, this is how they looked like before
I sanded all the detail and i begun to place the Eduard ones...
Pretty detailed dont you think? After that i dealt with the hydraulic lines, i did not like the Eduard ones so i started build my own
Using the Eduard ones as a guide...
For each line i measured, marked with a pencil and finally bend it using a homemade jig, an idea that i stole from a good guy named Chuck...
So i finally made this...
...but i did not like it so i started all over again using a different method regarding the distance and measurements. I squeezed a bit of 0.3mm solder wire, i taped it down on the table and using the same method as above i started to construct the lines. Each one was glued on the solder wire and finally after i had finished all 6 of them i used the solder to make a brace over them.
The result...
And a dry fit inside the well, of course also these parts have to be panted separately!!!
Thats all for now guys, hope you like it so far, waiting for your comments and remarks.
John