Seems like it's been way more than a month since I started this thread
This is one of those builds you have to glue up a quarter to a half inch at a time to keep things lined up as best possible .
The bulk of this build is going to be putty'n and sanding seams and then restoring panel lines .
It reminds me of the U-2 with these monster-span wings !
Today will be spent dealing with seams and panel lines ,
There was major-gappage around this intake for the supercharger .
I added some lacquer putty behind it prior to assembly so I could fill it in from the outside using acrylic medium .
Big improvement but it'll probably need more work after the primer hits it :
I had to remove maybe 3/4 of each positioning tab ( tenon ) from the horizontals to get them to snug up to the vertical , and they will still need putty :
They marked these components for the radiators left and right , but I couldn't see a difference in them at first ,, ,, but the left side is 1/2 mm wider . Maybe .4 mm ,
You can see how the one side of the larger left section is thicker .
Weird .
LOL , who knows what happennated
.. with that extra thickness reciprocated on the wing for that left side :
Weird
Just like I think they forgot the wheel well bulkheads when they designed the injection molds , I think they forgot a small bulkhead forward of the instrument panel .
The panel goes up into this cowling but it makes 2 points of contact .
Doable but weird :
The kit's plastic is solid & knives , sands and glues well .
So there's that .
