Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987

[Stikpusher]

and now back to our regularly scheduled Blue Angels Hornet build...

I have been doing seam filling and clean up. Thankfully the worst ones are on the undersurfaces due to the kits engineering. I'll be using some strip styrene to shim some of them.



I also cut the stabilators from their center linkage



and I test fitted them in the aluminum tubing... perfect fit after mold seam removal...



the masking tape is protecting the raised detail while I do filling and sanding on the fuselage joint seam...

[cbaltrin]

that seams like a lot of work...

[Medicman71]

You've been getting your jokes from Lyle haven't you?

[keavdog]

Lot's of seam work, but nothing horrible. Gaps are manageable, seams with huge steps are the ones I hate.
Great progress Stik.

[Stikpusher]

that seams like a lot of work...

[quote=cbaltrin post_id=159974 time=<a href="tel:1691498469">1691498469</a> user_id=2972]
that seams like a lot of work...

You've been getting your jokes from Lyle haven't you?
[/quote]

It sure seams that way, doesn’t it? anybody remember The Unknown Comic?

Lot's of seam work, but nothing horrible. Gaps are manageable, seams with huge steps are the ones I hate.
Great progress Stik.

Thanks John. I had some extremely minor steps below the cockpit and forward of the stabilators, but most have been dealt with already.
And I won’t say anything more in order to not jinx this project.

[LyleW]

Looks good. Sometimes you just have to shoe hornet into position.

[Stikpusher]

Yes folks, Lyle is in the house!

[cbaltrin]

that seams like a lot of work...

You've been getting your jokes from Lyle haven't you?

[Stikpusher]

Had an airbrushing session this morning, applying a coat of Tamiya White Liquid Surface Primer into the intakes, wheel wells, and landing gear struts. Using this stuff as a base under any white paint gives the most vivid white top coats I’ve ever achieved.



You can also see where I added strip styrene shims into the largest gaps of the upper & lower halves seam on the wing undersides.

[jeaton01]

Not gaps, canyons!