AMT Kit S921-200 built by speedgraflex

[speedgraflex]

My work continues on the seams. I will have photos tonight. I am using a combination of CA and Milliput. The Milliput was difficult and messy to use so I am limiting the usage to just filler or backing for the CA. The last time I did this I jumped too soon to primer which resulted in a back-forth with sanding and removal of primer as well as redoing the filler. Hopefully I learned enough since to achieve 90% of the final filled seams before moving on. Patience. Photos later.

[speedgraflex]

Mr Surfacer 500 applied with a pipe cleaner:

Blue highlighter - CA fill / Light blue highlighter - Milliput fill:

Four “locator openings” - CA fill:

[LyleW]

Lots of grunt work that will pay off! I still can’t make Milliput work fo me. Not sure why.

[Stikpusher]

Nice attention to detail fixing up all those surface flaws Bruce.

[speedgraflex]

Lyle, One of the two compounds used to make Milliput work is definitely stickier than I would like and over time gets more so. What happened to me was the light rinsing I gave my hands did not wash away the sticky film well enough: small clumps of Milliput gathered to my fingers, gathered to areas of the model I was holding where I did not want Milliput. I am still cleaning up these mistakes. Thanks for writing and your support.

Carlos, I hope to make more progress than this but the seams are simply going to take time. Thanks for your support as always.



There is a small dimple where the arrow is pointing which is common to all the AMT 18-in E models. I am considering drilling a hole smaller then the dimple in order to get the putty to stick.

A bit like lancing a boil.

[Duke Maddog]

Beautiful work Bruce; your persistence with the seam filling is gonna pay off in spades. As for the dimple; try the Mr. Surfacer 500 on it; I use it for that kind of thing all the time. Beats having to drill it out some more.

I love what I see here. This is rocking along well Bruce!

[speedgraflex]

Thank you so much for your advice, Mark. I sincerely appreciate your idea and will do it. I apologize to you and anyone following for the glacial pace of this project, but I learned the hard way that the seams need to be solidly glued and filled before painting begins. What a great tip, Mark. Sincerely.

[Duke Maddog]

You're welcome Bruce. I'm glad I could help. Don't worry about the slow pace. Life tends to get in the way sometimes and then there is our own persistence in trying to make it look right. I have taken long times to do a number of my projects; the Dora railgun, the Panzerzug BP-44 armored train, the C-118; the Space Shuttle with boosters all have taken a year or more of time given my drive to somehow make them look good. Believe me, based on the amount of work and attention you are doing here; this is going to be one smashingly great model!

[speedgraflex]

I am really relieved to be able to use Mr Surfacer to fill the dimple. These are a plague on both... nacelles! Thanks again, Mark!!!

[Duke Maddog]

You're most welcome Bruce!

Glad I could help.