**** DONE: 1/48 Arado Ar234B-2 - Jet/Recon/Transport GB

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blending that upper joint, rescribe and then add the rivet detail again, will look great! just take your time....remember I had a little issue with the HobbyBoss nose area but didn't take long to blend it all in fix it up!
 
Good to see that the transparent parts weren't cracked. Perhaps a thin bead of 2-part epoxy would work to fit the transparencies?
OK, it's fairly thick stuff when mixed, but can be 'teased out', and applied with a cocktail stick, rather like using PVA. I've used it in the past when joining vac-form parts together, both clear to 'solid', and 'solid to solid', and for vac-form to injection-moulded parts. Just a thought.
 
So glad your mishap has turned out not so bad Andy and from the looks of it you have plenty more little problems to solve elsewhere on the build, not sure if it's the angle of the shot but those ridges are looking mean.
 
I had a little rethink about how to fill the gaps on the underside of the wing to fuselage joint. There was a fair amount of movement evident due to the reasonably thin upper wing so I felt that simply filling the joint with putty would not be sufficient and the joint would just open up again with the flexing. For this reason, I opted for using plastic card to fill the gap but before doing so, I checked everything for squareness and measured the wing tips from a flat surface. The bevel square confirms that the vertical stab is perpendicular to the surface, a granite tile in this case:



Fortunately everything lined up nicely confirming also that the landing gear struts were aligned. It was then a matter of adding the plastic card, seen here before cutting and smoothing:



Here are some shots of the rough filing and sanding of the misaligned parts shown in the previous set of pics:





It was after this that I discovered a major dip in the ridge of the fuselage, shown here by a stir stick laid on edge. The top of the fuselage should, of course, be straight across the top. It's likely that I did this with the clamp I used to close the gaps.



Since this discovery, I added a ton of putty and have started sanding this area, obviously obliterating a bunch of panel lines and rivets which will need to be rescribed. This one's becoming quite the exercise in body work!
 
Can't toss it after all the work in the pit!

Some of the initial puttying and trial paint:





There will likely be a few more passes at this before I consider it fit for the rescribing. I like to build up a bit of a polished paint layer over the putty so that the sribing doesn't chip the putty.
 
Well now, you got me thinking. Not rubbing it in mate, just thinking out loud.

One more dry fit check for flattness. I wonder if this could have been fixed before gluing by puting as spreader Inside at the join? Like a full rib out of styrene? I had the same thing on my B-24 where I closed the bomb doors as I didn't see a need to detail the hold.

Doin some nice recovery mate.
 
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