1/48 Hasegawa Arado 234 Blitz-Now In Completed Section

[Stikpusher]

I suggest that you try a shim of some strip styrene in the leading edge.

[mustang1989]

I'll be looking into that and thanks Carlos.

[Stikpusher]

Anytime my friend

[mustang1989]

I've run aground at about every avenue so far whether it be waiting on a certain stage of the build until I awaiting completion of another step or trying to figure out how to overcome one obstacle or the other. So in the meantime I thought I'd do something at the bench towards the progress of this build.

The windscreen right out of the box with that nasty seam line running right down the middle of it:



and after sanding and polishing. No Future applied yet:

[Duke Maddog]

Wow! You sure wiped out that seam perfectly! That is the best job I've seen yet on clear parts!

[Stikpusher]

Wow! You sure wiped out that seam perfectly!

[Stuart]

Wow! You sure wiped out that seam perfectly!

[Paul]

The canopy looks right on, Joe.
The spacing on the riveting looks just about as right as rain, a little deep to my eye but then I am blind anyway.

[kahunaminor]

I've run aground at about every avenue so far whether it be waiting on a certain stage of the build until I awaiting completion of another step or trying to figure out how to overcome one obstacle or the other. So in the meantime I thought I'd do something at the bench towards the progress of this build.

The windscreen right out of the box with that nasty seam line running right down the middle of it:



and after sanding and polishing. No Future applied yet:

That will do nicely!

Something that always fills me with trepidation is removing canopy seams. Maybe it's just me aversion to sanding anything?

Regards,

[mustang1989]

Thank you all for the encouragement on this bad boy. It's much appreciated .....especially when I have times at the bench like I've had for the last couple of days. I mean.........I pulled this next stunt off but it was a bit frustrating to me.

I finally opened up the Aires engine set because I'm at that point to where I want to work on the engine mounting for the starboard engine as that's the one I'll be displaying opened up. I was just getting over all the goodies in the kit (these engines look fabulous BTW) when I turned my attention to the instructions of how these beauties mount up to the wing. At first I wanted to put everything back in the box and move on.
You guys know about where I'm at with the build right now so you can imagine how I felt when I saw this in the instructions:



Yeah. That's what I said too.

I did, however , think about it over a cup of coffee and came up with this plan:

I took this:



and cut the locating pins off of the base and sanded the back side down until I was left with the center strip and the offset mounting hole, made all the cuts and holes in the wing like I was supposed to and inserted everything into the openings and holes in the wing from the outside.

The results? Something I think I can live with:



Ok.....made it past that hump! Movin' right along now.................................