Sunday, 16 November 2014

Landing Gear Struts, Tail Skid, and Bottom Work

Managed to get some more work done after watching The Walking Dead. Put on some more anchoring points for the rigging. Then I put on the tail skid and landing gear struts. One thing that I do not like about this otherwise cool good model is the lack of positive contact between parts. I had to drill out the tail skid hole and this resulted in a crack appearing where I had carefully sealed the fuselage.

Then I noticed the nearly non-existent holes for the gear struts had been filled
in during my painting efforts. Using my digital calipers I carefully measured the
distance between the center of the points. 
Then, after checking and rechecking the plans, I drilled holes in
the underside of the fuselage under the wing. Once this was done
I used the calipers to mark off where I should drill the other hole for each
gear strut.

A dab of crazy glue was placed in each hole and then the struts were mounted. 

Jut have to do some touch ups, rigging, and decals and it will be complete. 


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