Doors and more doors
As our clear gloss coat dries before we apply decals, let’s visit the final pieces that dangle off our airframe, beginning with all those doors.
There are plenty of doors to work through with one issue arising with them all, pesky injection marks on the inside faces that require time and some sanding to remove.
You can see above the ‘before’ & ‘after’ on the inner weapons bay doors. I see no point in boring you with pictures of each set of doors, the same thing needs addressing on every one.
The hinges for the doors are well detailed and mount into pre-prepared grooves, but beware mis-numbering on the instructions. An example is for the hinges on those same inner weapons bay doors, parts #B40 / #B44 and #B41 / #B45 are reversed, get this wrong and your hinges won’t line up with their corresponding slots in the airframe, take time here to dry fit and check the alignment.
All going well, you will have plenty to now prime and top coat the outer faces with our MSG.
For the very sharp-eyed among you, ‘yes’ there is a hinge missing on the outer weapons bay port door, courtesy of the carpet monster eating it. Bah humbug…have to live with it.
A coat of primer on everything followed by our top coat of MSG and a sealing coat of clear gloss means we can turn these over and work on the inner faces.
With the differing curves of the outer faces, all are masked up first to prevent over spray before flipping over and getting ready to prime and finish in our white interior colour. At this point I applied the decals for the outer door faces and overshot the gloss coat with a matt sheen using Alclad’s best.
