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[keavdog]

Nice work. Those belts look grea.

[Stikpusher]

Those wing spars look nice and strong

[mustang1989]

Oh my LORD man!! That is some FANTASTIC detailing in that pit. As with all aircraft builds, it's almost a shame to cover everything up by joining the fuselage halves together.

[KSaarni]

Nice work. Those belts look grea.

Thanks John!

Oh my LORD man!! That is some FANTASTIC detailing in that pit. As with all aircraft builds, it's almost a shame to cover everything up by joining the fuselage halves together.

Thank you Joe!

Those wing spars look nice and strong

Thanks Carlos, the spars are strong. But I had expected overall a tighter fit with the wing, slightly more surface available for cement. Of course not a disaster, but still, could be better. I remember when I built Eduards excellent 1:48 Hellcat, the wings snapped on so nicely and stayed sturdy without any cement.



- Kari

[mustang1989]

Thanks Carlos, the spars are strong. But I had expected overall a tighter fit with the wing, slightly more surface available for cement. Of course not a disaster, but still, could be better. I remember when I built Eduards excellent 1:48 Hellcat, the wings snapped on so nicely and stayed sturdy without any cement.



- Kari[/quote]I've got one of those bad boys in the stash and a wing folding kit to go right along side of it.

[KSaarni]

Eduards excellent 1:48 Hellcat

I've got one of those bad boys in the stash and a wing folding kit to go right along side of it.

Joe! When you go on airplane building mode, I can warmly recommend it! So nice kit!

Heck, I have one as well in my stash ( a Weekend edition), so that might very well be my next build... I'm a little bit into Pacific campaign lately

- Kari

[Medicman71]

Wow! That was built up quickly. Very nice!

[KSaarni]

Thanks Mike!

- Kari

[KSaarni]

The build is progressing and the wings & stabilizers are on as well as the rudder.

The rudder is very specially made. It's a one piece rudder but partially hollow.

I believe this is a sort of a statement from Eduard, to show that they can produce very complicated molds to be able to cast such pieces. That's the only practical reason I can come up with. Otherwise to "over-engineer" a rudder this way, does not make any sense to me.





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Even if over engineerd, it's still sort of impressive.



As a foot note:
I shared a tiny video-clip of this rudder on my GrundAsk facebook page and was positively surpised when the same clip was shared on the "SAM - Scale Aircraft Modelling" Publishers Facebook page!
Even if it did not became a hit, with hundreds and hundreds of likes and tons of comments... I'm still honored to be this way acknowledged :-)



- Kari

[Medicman71]

That's awesome Kari! I just saw the post on FB.