N4521U
Colonel
Lordy..................... keep at it I think you will win..........
Still have to find one-o-them clamps.
Still have to find one-o-them clamps.
**** DONE: GB-57 1/48 Spitfire MK.XVIe Low-back - WW2 Foreign Service
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Crimea_River
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Thanks all. Yeah
N4521U
Bill I Googled for bit under "Berna Clamps" but didnt see them in your area right away. I bought them at Home - Lee Valley Tools a local hardware outlet. Not sure if they ship to Oz.
N4521U
Bill I Googled for bit under "Berna Clamps" but didnt see them in your area right away. I bought them at Home - Lee Valley Tools a local hardware outlet. Not sure if they ship to Oz.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Not easy to get here Bill, on eBay from UK and Amazon Singapore when in stock.
N4521U
Colonel
So I have noticed over 8 years!!!!
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Crimea_River
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Thanks all. Second wing upper glued in place. Any little bits of stretched sprue and styrene card they were't battened down onto my workbench were sucked up and glued into the large wing root gaps.
So lots of sanding and filling to come.....
So lots of sanding and filling to come.....
fubar57
General
Gotta remember to use sprue more instead of mud- Thread starter
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Crimea_River
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Yeah, it's cheap and effective. When I have large gaps like that, I prefer to melt plastic into them to add strength. Putty is cosmetic only.
N4521U
Colonel
Putty is crap I am finding............... over and over!
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Crimea_River
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First of many gooping sessions has started. Tamiya Surface Primer.
The hole in the bottom of the radiator bath is my attempt (unsuccesful) to push up the upper wing chord to match the wing root fairing. The step in this area has aready been rough-filed away. Also, I realized to my momentary horror that I forgot to add a means of support for the exhaust stubs before gluing on the lower engine cowl. Fortunately, I had already dry-fit some spare Eduard stubs that are quite tight so all that will be needed is a little glue on the press-fit.
I won't post the boring touch-ups and filing/sanding steps before something more exciting comes along so it may be several days before you see anything new here. Thanks for your continued interest and patience.
PS: I need to check if that moulded ground starter hatch in the port wing root fairing should be there. If anyone knows for sure, let me know, otherwise I'll report back on anything I find.
The hole in the bottom of the radiator bath is my attempt (unsuccesful) to push up the upper wing chord to match the wing root fairing. The step in this area has aready been rough-filed away. Also, I realized to my momentary horror that I forgot to add a means of support for the exhaust stubs before gluing on the lower engine cowl. Fortunately, I had already dry-fit some spare Eduard stubs that are quite tight so all that will be needed is a little glue on the press-fit.
I won't post the boring touch-ups and filing/sanding steps before something more exciting comes along so it may be several days before you see anything new here. Thanks for your continued interest and patience.
PS: I need to check if that moulded ground starter hatch in the port wing root fairing should be there. If anyone knows for sure, let me know, otherwise I'll report back on anything I find.
fubar57
General
PM sent Andy
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Crimea_River
Marshal
With thanks to Geo, the ground starter hatch should be present.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Mudding madness continues and I include here an upadte to show a little more of what's happening.
The combination of white plastic and aging eyes caused me to miss what turned out to be a larger-than-expected step at the lower cowl joint on the port side. Putty is always my last resort but this time I had not other option.
So, more smoothing work is needed and that's continuing daily.
In other news, I've decided to go with the clipped wings on DN-A, contrary to the depictions in Bracken's book and on the decal sheet profile. If the decals prove troublesome, I'll do 2I-V. I trial fitted the kit wing tips and agree with one criticism I read of this kit that the tips are a little too rounded.
I have a spare set of Eduard tips so tried those. I just noticed the blurry pic below now that I've uploaded it but you get the idea. Though the tip is truer to the correct shape, ICM's wing is much thicker at this location so there would be a sizeable step on both the top and underside of the wing if I went this route.
So, I will use ICM's tips but will shave the outer edges down a bit. Thanks for your continued interest.
The combination of white plastic and aging eyes caused me to miss what turned out to be a larger-than-expected step at the lower cowl joint on the port side. Putty is always my last resort but this time I had not other option.
So, more smoothing work is needed and that's continuing daily.
In other news, I've decided to go with the clipped wings on DN-A, contrary to the depictions in Bracken's book and on the decal sheet profile. If the decals prove troublesome, I'll do 2I-V. I trial fitted the kit wing tips and agree with one criticism I read of this kit that the tips are a little too rounded.
I have a spare set of Eduard tips so tried those. I just noticed the blurry pic below now that I've uploaded it but you get the idea. Though the tip is truer to the correct shape, ICM's wing is much thicker at this location so there would be a sizeable step on both the top and underside of the wing if I went this route.
So, I will use ICM's tips but will shave the outer edges down a bit. Thanks for your continued interest.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
That's a lot of putty in Pic 1, I'd be using my Dremel sanding wheel to kick-start shaving that lot back. Your putting a lot of hard work into this one Andy. 
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Crimea_River
Marshal
It looks worse than it is Vic. Already sanded back and some surface primer added to fill some small indents.
Nice work so far!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Hugh. Still fixing little dents....
Lot of work going on there Andy, will look great in the end though....
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