1/72 McDonnell-Douglas A-4K Skyhawk - Your Favourite Aircraft of All Time GB

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And sometimes the hammer comes in handy for other things too!
 
this is way more complicated than anything I have ever seen or tried. Would separating the two wing halves, cleaning out the excess glue and then applying your heat treatment be an advantage?
 
Wing halves are already seperated Mike, I just placed them together for the pic to show the extent of the warp.
My mate had used alot of glue to cement her, but it's not in a mass on the inside - rather the fumes from the excess glue affected the plastic and formed the bulge (though only on one side strangely).

And yeah, I'm thinking it would be easier just to cut the entire section out and make a new one from plastic sheet, but I like trying new techniques!
 
As Vic says, warps can be fixed with gentle pressure and heat but what you have there looks like deformation. If the plastic has expanded or shrunk, it would be very difficult to get it back to the correct shape.
 
That one piece needs a jack hammer imediatley. I'd mail you mine but the shiping would be a @@#ch.
 
Guys...

Yep, Andy and Aaron are right: 'warp' was understatement of the century; she looks more like a pregnant goldfish than a Skyhawk wing.
Think I will just chop it clean out and make a new wing section from plastic card (thank God it's the lower wing with less curve and no vortex generators to reproduce!)

Have been amassing as much info as I can find on our Squawks recently, there were more than a few variations over the 31 years they served. Will most likely model her in what I call the 'second configuration': (empty) avionics hump still attached, but airborne sensors repositioned.
 

Aha... it's bloated... I see.
 

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