Hoping so. Revell's insanity reared it ugly head while I was doing seam clean up.
Notice the roughness of the cut-outs on either side. This will need to be smoothed to get a good fit
The roughness is also around the mating surfaces of the fuselage halves. Flash is also apparent. Another thing that isn't noticed at first on both kits is a very fine lip that runs around fuselage parts. You can't see it but its definitely there. It doesn't take much to remove with some sandpaper but it is annoying
This is the gap at the intake join, the same as the other single seater.
I won't tackle this now, packing for camp and night shift. This is the end of 3 weeks vacation time. At the end of this tour.....3 more weeks of vacation. Enjoy your week gentlemen
Thanks all. Lots of cold, two days of snow and 5 hours of near zero visibility fog last night. Test fitting the exhaust nozzle showed a less than stellar attachment with three under-size attachment points.
The best I could get was two barely touching fits. Solution....back it up.
I cut off three pieces of plastic strip and using tube glue attached them slightly forward of the attachment points. While they were setting up I positioned the nozzle into place and this forced the strips into the right position
I'll let this set up and in the meantime, paint the inside of the rear fuselage halves and nozzle
Thanks guys. Intakes are done and on to the rear fuselage section. Once that and the nose section are done I'll do seam clean-up on both single seaters.