Thanks guy's.
Jeeves, it's 1/72, kinda puts alot of the latest large scale Trumpeter kits to shame for surface detail, now doesn't it :evil: .
Christian, it's not that bad, it just takes a bit of careful clean up and gluing, for the fuselage I started at the tail section and worked forward, carefully lining up each section doing one at a time. The reason there is any filler at all on the fuselage is that if you clean up the mating surfaces so they are flat and blemish free it will be to narrow for the canopies, you don't have a lot of leeway in cleaning up mating surfaces. And where there is filler I used tape on either side so as not to totally wipe out the detail.
Make sure all the mating surfaces are touching before you glue them, with the wings this is not difficult as there is a main spar, glue the tops on first and then the inner lower pieces, take your time in sanding and fitting them, and then the outer ones. Mostly I removed the locating pins from the parts.
Build the cowlings before you add the nacelles, as you will find a number of the parts will have to be bent into shape. The landing gear looks to be delicate(I pinned mine) but really once the nacelles are on it's quit sturdy. you could probably get away with adding them later, but I suspect it would be difficult and not worth the bother.
If you look closely at the bottom pic you will see the lower cover looks to be to narrow, but actually if you heat it up and flatten it, it fits good and the whole nacelle will be round as the cowlings. To add the nacelles, glue only the very back, not even all the way to the gear bay, just enough to hold them together. If you have checked them against the inner and outer lower wing panels and sanded everything down properly, you will get a seamless and step less joint when you go to glue the nacelles on. You will have to bend the nacelle half's a bit to get them to line up properly, do one side at a time working from the back to the front and leave the cowling surfaces to last, as the wing part has to be forced down a bit, and
do not use the exhaust ring as a guide. The parts are not warped, but they do need to be prodded into proper shape.
I mucked up a bit on this side and there is a bit of a step, but the other side is perfect
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At the moment I can't afford any references to this plane, I know they are out there, so if anyone has some info they wouldn't mind sharing please let me know, one thing I am looking for is under wing bomb mounts.
