1/32 Zoukei-Mura Ta152H-0 White 7

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Although I'm not posting regularly, regular work is being performed on the Tank fighter. But it is of the repetitive apply-dry-adjust-apply-dry-adjust cycle that I'm plodding through and not taking a great joy in documenting. But the work continues. And the work is starting to finally get somewhere.

Here is the work so far on the top side wing roots. Slowly and surely we are addressing seams, finding new ones, addressing those until the ever-growing list eventually starts to get whittled down. The giant seams were filled with stretched sprue and those a magnitude smaller were addressed with White Milliput. Mr Surfacer 1000 was used for the fine fill work and many cycles were repeated as I'm striving to get some consistency on the panel lines. I can't achieve perfection so my goal is for the panel lines not to call attention to themselves. The photos are a bit deceiving since re-scribing often digs into the Milliput, which gives an opposite impression when the scriber hits the black plastic.
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Here is the view of the bottom. This is a significantly more involved piece of work since the severity of the fit issues forced me to do a much more extensive fill operation to get everything on the same level. The base putty work is just about complete.
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A coat of Mr Surfacer 1200 over the repair area shows how much of the detail has been eradicated. I'll now start the slow, repetitive process of re-scribing, re-riveting and surface touch-ups that will be required since I'll be re-scribing through a minefield of different materials.
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I’m speechless. I guess I just need to work at it...
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Yikes! For such a high end kit, I would not have expected such fit problems. You have your work cut out for you on replacing all the lost detail.
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:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:
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Wow, you are making it look easy but this is a crazy amount of work.
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I think you did well John to get that all together - and I shan't complain about the fit issues on my Buccaneer again!
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Well, I'm gobsmacked. I don't know that I would ever go through the added work of re-adding all the detail on the bottom. That is the difference between a true Master and a lazy novice like myself.

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Thank you for the supportive comments! I've needed the encouragement on this build with all of the corrective work that I've had to do. But I think I've reached a turning point on this build. After a few iterations of leveling out the bottom as much as I could, I've added the detail back onto the surface. And it wasn't as difficult as I had feared. The mix of different putties and plastic behaved fairly well under my rescribing tools and rivet wheel.
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It may not look like much but that little area of real estate has set me back about a month or so. I feel pretty good about where the Tank fighter stands right now and can finally start moving on.
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I thought I responded to your previous post, John! TGIF! Your work is impeccable! I think what hit home about the true nature of what you had to go through was learning it was a month’s on and off again process. You have my utmost respect!
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Thanks Bruce!

Moving forward, I've glued the mount to the annular radiator to the front of the fuselage. It took quite a bit of sustained force to get it into place.
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View from the rear shows a significant step that will need to be corrected before I mount the radiator and flaps and front nose ring. Does the fun never stop on this one???
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The actual radiator has been painted. Only the inside even though the outside of the ring is fully detailed as well.
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You'll only see a portion of the inside.
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