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A really interesting thread - thanks for sharing it.

Stunning work BTW

At this point is where the line drawing comes into play. lost of panel lines and rivets were gone. I did not want to do a whole re-scribing as I did in the past, as I found out for my needs, the exercise did not add a lot of significant difference, compared if I would had done 'partial' re-scribing - focusing only the areas where the panel lines were lost. Again, this can be a hot issue for discussion. By the way, I cut off the flaps.



Here is the wheel bay.....plain vanilla.... 75 percent of it will be hidden under the bay doors so will do some detailing but partially.



The start of re-scribing lost panel lines and rivets. The PE tool is from Hasegawa Tri-Tool set



I use this tool for the riveting process from RB Production "Rivet-R-Mini". I use the handle from a pen cutter (like the one from OLFA). I think RB Production riveter is way BETTER than Trumpeters. A friend of mine has the "Rosie-the-Riveter" and it looks better than RB's though I have not tried it yet.

My effort to make the undercarriages more better looking. lots of sink holes to patch using putty and sanding



copper wire and masking tape, glued using ordinary super glue.



Working on detailing the wheel bays. again, 75% of it will be unseen, so I just touched up on the areas where it is likely to have some visual. materials are stretched sprue, copper wire, and Tamiya masking tape.



Finished working on the wheel bay... here, with the upgraded landing gear



Tamiya Surface Primer blends in everything to white

Nice!

nice work !
gino

How do you get the Tamiya tape to stick to anything in such small pieces. I can't get it to hold its place when trying to mask canopies.

LyleW wrote:How do you get the Tamiya tape to stick to anything in such small pieces. I can't get it to hold its place when trying to mask canopies.

My guess it's an ancient Chinese secret.

I wondered that too.

maybe snot? I dunno?

Hi Lyle - at the start, I didnt use any special glue... I always cut fresh tape for these type of useage. Then, once in place, i would drop a small amount of super glue.

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the update.