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[T Bolt]

The results of my early morning gluing session:
Picture 1) Wile the bottom rear joint looks pretty good, the bottom front is going to need some work to make it look good.
Picture 2) The top joints look good, just some clean-up of the glue that oozed out.

A set-back, or at least some waisted time:
Picture 3) The kit tanks which I spent a lot of time on tonight, filing the seams rescribing, sanding and polishing for the NMF. I had thought they were the ones that I needed for the scheme on the decal sheet, only that they were missing a single fin which I was about to make out of plactic card. For some reason I compared them to the decals and they were way too small. A closser look at reference photos showed that I had the wrong tanks.
Picture 4) Reference photo.
Picture 5) Academy to the rescue! These are the correct tanks that come with Accademys re-boxing of the Hobbycraft T-33 kit which fortently I just bought a couple of weeks ago. I guess the T-33 will have to do without tip tanks. More glueing, fileing sanding and polishing.

 

[A4K]

Looking good from here Glenn!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Excellent! It's always nice when you find what you need without having to go out and buy more.

 

[Airframes]

Good progress, and well done on sourcing the correct tanks. I spent at least two hours on the tanks for the Harrier, ensuring the seams were smooth - painted them, and no seams visble. Then after a day or so, there's a feint trace of the bottom seam on each tank! It's those bl**dy gremlins, I swear !

 

[Rogi]

Very nice so far Good job on spoting the tanks

 

[Wayne Little]

Well done Glenn!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

A set-back, or at least some waisted time:[/B]
The kit tanks which I spent a lot of time on tonight, filing the seams rescribing, sanding and polishing for the NMF. I had thought they were the ones that I needed for the scheme on the decal sheet, only that they were missing a single fin which I was about to make out of plactic card. For some reason I compared them to the decals and they were way too small. A closser look at reference photos showed that I had the wrong tanks.

Not to worry Glenn………..it was all good practice.

Joking aside though, it's coming along nicely.

 

[T Bolt]

Not to worry Glenn………..it was all good practice.

Joking aside though, it's coming along nicely.

Well I guess I'm still practicing! Spent a couple of hours tonight working on that ugly joint under the forward fuselage. Bodacious amounts of thick CA and then taking it down with my large file. It'd pretty close right now, just some sanding and re-scribing tomorrow, than I'll shoot some paint on it to make sure and take a picture to post.

 

[woody]

Looking good Glenn.

 

[T Bolt]

I finished the underside wing joint and all the re-scribing late last night. I didn't get the primer on th look for imperfections, but it looked pretty good in reflected light which I find is a pretty good test. I also glued on the horizontal stabilizers. It will be ready for paint once I get that joint cleaned up and polished. Camouflage sure is a lot less prep work than NMF!

 

[ozhawk40]

Very tidy Glenn

Cheers

Peter

 

[Airframes]

Sure is - nicely done Glenn.

 

[Gnomey]

Coming along nicely Glenn!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nicely done Glenn.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Looking very sharp Glenn!!

 

[A4K]

Looking great Glenn!

 

[Crimea_River]

Spiffy.

 

[Wayne Little]

looks good Glenn!

 

[meatloaf109]

I can sympathise on the NMF, last three models I've messed with have been that.
Kinda looking forward to the Spit build!

 

[T Bolt]

I've finished all re-scribing and polishing of the basic airframe and tanks, and also finished the clean-up of all the landing gear parts. Should put on the first coat of silver tonight or tomorrow.