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mustang1989 wrote: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:

mustang1989 wrote:
Yeah. That's what I said too.

Wow, I know how you feel about wanting to put something back on the shelf. I did the same thing with my SMERCH since dropping one half of a suspension piece that I cannot finish the model without. I lost all mojo yesterday because of that. I'm going to go back in there today to see if I can't move forward on other projects just like you did today. Thanks for the motivation. That looks excellent.

Great save!

Good problem solving skills. You can bet if I tried that, I would drop one of the pieces into the wing.

Regards,

Superb save Joe! And yes I did say that

portman wrote:Superb save Joe! And yes I did say that

Thanks fellas!! LOL.

Didjya learn somethin here??? (My kid LOVES that question!!!)
I learned long ago...before even breaking out the sprue snips...go through the instructions, as well as the instructions for a/m stuff...make notes on the kit instruction sheet. Even if it's a simple "X" by the step number, denoting that there's more to that step. It's so easy to miss something, especially when you have multiple a/m sets!

Anyway, ya got it did up real good!

MOOOOORRRRRRRRE!!!!

Man am I ever learnin' Fermis! Sucks to have to learn the hard way though.

Lot's of cutting and sanding going on as of late. I've got the port side engine pod minus all the panels about ready though. I still have some sanding and filling to do at the front and rear but I feel fairly good about the progress so far.......it's just taking forever to get anywhere past all the cutting. lol

Cut and sectioned out:



I cut the center strip out of the left over engine pod root and got the halves glued together this morning:



I didn't foresee being able to paint the engine air intake area on the starboard closed up engine uniformly so I cut the starter assy out of the center of the air intake to paint it and will reinstall it after painting.



That's about it for now but I still have one more day this week to make some progress on this bad boy.

Ok gang....It's Monday which means we're back on the Arado once again. I got the engine nacelle installed on the starboard side and did ALOT of test fitting and trimming for the displayed port side engine.

Here's where we are today.

That's looking very cool that!

portman wrote:That's looking very cool that!

- Kari