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KSaarni wrote:Many thanks John for the clarification, now it makes much more sense!

I was already thinking how CA and Mr surfacer would react when mixed!

- Kari

It probably wouldn't be pretty! I've edited the post to clarify as well. Thanks for pointing that out!

KSaarni wrote:
I was already thinking how CA and Mr surfacer would react when mixed!

- Kari

Wie sagt man “brick” auf Deutsch?

- Kari

Here's my tire repair approach to the hole I've created.


With the repair work constrained to a small area, I thought I'd go ahead and add the nose cap on at this time. First I loaded it up with a few more lead weights... just in case!




After the sprue patch was sanded down, I coated the area with sprue goo.


A quick check to make sure the radar antenna posts can be inserted without issue.


The hole repair after sanding down the layer of Mr Surfacer 1000 that was placed after the sprue goo. It looks messy but I think we are good here and I'm going to move on to the nose cap, which has also been given a dose of sprue goo.

And that right there...............is how it's done folks. Smooth as a baby's butt.

Thanks guys! Spent the weekend up in San Francisco so no updates in the past few days. I've finally wrapped up the putty work on the nose.





The wash will be cleaned off from the rivets and panel lines as much as possible as I move toward more assembly. The wheel well walls have been glued into the wing bottom.

Looking very sharp John. I swear that Willi Messerschmitt must have been thinking of sharks when he designed this fuselage.

I think so too

- Kari

Looking great John! Man, I can't tell that anything went wrong!