Thanks Carlos!
It's time to start gluing the fuselage components together.
First up is the Wolfpack resin nose. I've test fitted it multiple times and am ready to glue into place using Black CA glue.
The starboard side butts up together very nicely.
There is a bit of a gap on the port side. I've filled this using more Black CA glue. To minimize the sanding, I used a cotton bud moistened with CA glue debonder to level the glue gap.
Thin CA was seeped into the other contact joints and the gaps were touched up with Mr Surfacer 1000. This usually takes a few iterations and in the process, the panel lines and rivets were cleaned up as well. This is what the joint currently looks like with a thin coat of Mr Primer Surfacer 1000.
Another task that I was able to complete while waiting for the putty to dry was fabricating the wing gun barrels using brass tubing.
I decided to rivet the wing tops at this time. Rivet lines were laid out using a soft leaded pencil.
The Galaxy rivet tool in 1.00mm pitch was used to punch the rivets along the drawn lines.
The riveting process creates small mounds of plastic around each rivet hole.
I choose to sand these mounds away, leaving just the hole.
After a little more work on the resin/fuselage joint, I'll be ready to glue the wing spar and the fuselage bottom into place.
