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Thanks guys. Very excited; off to Auckland tomorrow to look at a Mosquito! Sadly it won't be flying, but it'll be pretty sweet nonetheless.
So, when we last looked, the fuse had just gone together. Not unexpectedly there will be lots of sanding and puttying involved because of the gaps and steps in the halves. I had to unstick the halves partially in places and re-glue them to realign them, but after this it still doesn't look perfect. That's partially My mistake in not aligning the parts properly, although the poor fit didn't help.
The underside is probably the worst and will require quite a lot of work when it comes to inserting the underside plate over that hole. Those antennae are gonna have to come off, too.
Against my own advice I decided to put some effort into straightening the nose line.
After working on the fuse, I put another undercoat on wings and hori stab. Notice that I've also fitted the winglets.
A bit of splutter in the painting process caused a minor incident in the paint booth, which meant sanding down and re-spraying on the RH wing underside, where the outbd engine is supposed to go. You can see the lack of panel lines where I've sanded and re-sprayed. I'll have to re-scribe the panel lines or it'll look odd.
More work has been done on the engine pods and LP fans; final layers of colour and tadpole markings on the fan centre cones. Note that these are different, this is because the two narrower ones represent the No 1 and 2 engines that were replaced in Chile after a fracas with a ground vehicle. The bigger decals are not sitting on the cones very well, so I'll add a drop of clear coat to them.
I also mixed up a brownish hue for the aft end of the cones.
All for now.
So, when we last looked, the fuse had just gone together. Not unexpectedly there will be lots of sanding and puttying involved because of the gaps and steps in the halves. I had to unstick the halves partially in places and re-glue them to realign them, but after this it still doesn't look perfect. That's partially My mistake in not aligning the parts properly, although the poor fit didn't help.
The underside is probably the worst and will require quite a lot of work when it comes to inserting the underside plate over that hole. Those antennae are gonna have to come off, too.
Against my own advice I decided to put some effort into straightening the nose line.
After working on the fuse, I put another undercoat on wings and hori stab. Notice that I've also fitted the winglets.
A bit of splutter in the painting process caused a minor incident in the paint booth, which meant sanding down and re-spraying on the RH wing underside, where the outbd engine is supposed to go. You can see the lack of panel lines where I've sanded and re-sprayed. I'll have to re-scribe the panel lines or it'll look odd.
More work has been done on the engine pods and LP fans; final layers of colour and tadpole markings on the fan centre cones. Note that these are different, this is because the two narrower ones represent the No 1 and 2 engines that were replaced in Chile after a fracas with a ground vehicle. The bigger decals are not sitting on the cones very well, so I'll add a drop of clear coat to them.
I also mixed up a brownish hue for the aft end of the cones.
All for now.