**** DONE: 1/72 BV222 Wiking Seaplanes / Floatplanes of WW II (1 Viewer)

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Amazing repair. It looks perfectly smooth and no loss to any of the panel lines. When I try something like that the glue residue is harder than the plastic and I sand more plastic than glue. What grit are you using?
 
Mike , judging by your words you don't use a glue but a cement. So no wonder you have a trouble with the treatment by sanding..
 
Amazing repair. It looks perfectly smooth and no loss to any of the panel lines. When I try something like that the glue residue is harder than the plastic and I sand more plastic than glue. What grit are you using?

600 to 800 to 1200 Mike.

Damn! Now show us the finished hull bottom please! (I swear Wayne, I don't know if your work inspires me or is the most soul crushing thing I have ever seen!)

glued the other wing together today so Didn't get to the hull bottom Jim, will tackle it tomorrow, only take a couple of minutes to sort that smaller crack out.

thanks for your comments fellas....
 
and that other crack repair....before and after...
 

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Boy one wing is near enough a whole He. 111. Wasn't the BV.222 the largest, heaviest and longest flying seaplane of WWII and all time? I mean the 'Goose' is famous for being spuce and not flying far?

Must be a fine grit paper; wet 'n dry 900?, there's little sanding 'grainage' visabl in the pics - or small enough that the base/primer paint and the top coats would make it irrelivent.

Love the details on the moedel as is, shows more than pics of the actual Viking show in many repsects - like the collector ring ejection exhaust ports for example.
 
I noticed some new harsh words were added to the the book last and wondered who had contrived them?Nice repair Wayne. ;)
 

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