Richard, is the interior color your mix or does Tamiya have a comparable shade?

Bob

Richard, sorry that I did not completely read your prior posts it would have cleared up everything. Thanks for the tips.

Bob

Richard,
With the fit of the wings, which looks like you needed to do quite a lot of work, but the end result is near perfection. those Flaps fit perfectly. I'm more then impressed.

What did you use for a filler? Squadron White Stuff?

Joel

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Richard,
With the fit of the wings, which looks like you needed to do quite a lot of work, but the end result is near perfection. those Flaps fit perfectly. I'm more then impressed.

What did you use for a filler? Squadron White Stuff?

Joel

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Joel-

The upper port wing needed plastic shim at the root from the leading edge aft to the knuckle where the joint turns more parallel to the fuselage. Elsewhere I used Gunze Mr White Putty which is probably similar to Squadron White . Seems to be Laquer or toulolene based. Final touch up with Tamiya surfacer brushed on. All wet
block sanded in between progressively starting with 600 when necessary down to 2000. For final polishing where needed I've lately been using Blue Magic Metal polish . I cut squares out of white cotton tees and spread a dab on the square and let it dry before using - this seems to let the solvents evaporate so it is more plastic friendly. I also now hit the finished white putty areas that need scribing with a swipe of thin CA. This seems to help with the crumbling a bit.

Thanks for looking in - Richard

Richard, beautiful work, Love the attention to detail. I would need another magnification on my hood and smaller hands to even try to modify or add detail. Keep up the work and posts I am learning much.

Bob

Richard I have been making comparisons between the Hasegawa and Otaki kits:

H: wing roots seem to fit better than the O:
The tail and stabs look close, but the O: wing is much thicker and the LG well is really shallow.

But over all so far the O: is not bad for the price except for the canopy.

The H: would be a more pleasant build and you've shown a better base for modifying.

Your elevator modification almost makes me want to try on a future build.

Bob

Richard,
you're making excellent progress.

I've always glued a block of Evergreen strip to the front of the flying surface, then slowly sanded them to fit the concave surface I created on the wing portion. it takes a to of work to accomplish. Your method of just adding sheet plastic where needed is a no brainer. Seems to be a way better solution. I'll have to try it the next time I want to reposition the flying surfaces.

I really like how you added those mini spares to the wings in order to create the effect of an interior. Looks great.

last but not least, your method of equalizing all the flying surfaces to the same plane puts my ad hoc methods to shame.

Joel

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Richard,
you're making excellent progress.

I've always glued a block of Evergreen strip to the front of the flying surface, then slowly sanded them to fit the concave surface I created on the wing portion. it takes a to of work to accomplish. Your method of just adding sheet plastic where needed is a no brainer. Seems to be a way better solution. I'll have to try it the next time I want to reposition the flying surfaces.

I really like how you added those mini spares to the wings in order to create the effect of an interior. Looks great.

last but not least, your method of equalizing all the flying surfaces to the same plane puts my ad hoc methods to shame.

Joel

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Joel-
I've done control surfaces the same way you described- in fact the rudder on this build was done that way . The elevators were solid and one piece so I cut halfway through from each side in a "v" fashion to create a v notch along the traililing edge of the stabs and a v shaped leading edge on the elevators which I simply rounded off. The ailerons presented problems in that they are longer chordwise on their bottom surface than the top so "faking " the leading edges presented less problems in posing them in their deflected positions.
Thanks for looking in - Richard

Amazing work which reveals your modelling skills.