Wings next
These were fine and didn’t pose much trouble. The horizontal stabilisers had a butt joint to the tailplane section so these needed to be glued in place with some care. Naturally, this being a short run kit, there are no location pins. This doesn’t have to be a massive problem but diligence is needed when gluing, for instance, wing halves. Dry-fitting is recommended but this actually went ok.
The port and starboard upper wings were glued to the one piece lower wing section and then this assembly was fitted to the fuselage. Tape was used just to help with dihedral.
Next challenge is the front canopy
This part almost fitted but not quite. Too tall and not wide enough. Careful clamping, so not to shatter the piece, and some fettling is needed to make it some thing like it should be. Even when the glue had dried, the canopy still had to be sanded to the shape of the surrounding fuselage. It was not going to be perfect, this is a short run kit don’t forget, but I tried to make it as good as I could, so when happy, the canopy was sprayed the cockpit colour.
While I was at it, I sprayed some black primer on various joins to check any seams and nasties. These were attended to by a little filling and sanding, there wasn’t much to do actually.
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