Post by eaglecash867 on Mar 15, 2024 20:55:22 GMT -5
Thanks for the comments fellas.
Finally was able to get back to this one again. Getting a feel for putting the engine nacelles together was a little rocky at first. I ended up with a HUGE builder-induced step toward the front of the top of the nacelle. It was big enough to where sanding would have thinned the material on one side far too much, so I had to cut through it with a scribe and use a .010 styrene strip to fill the gap the cutting created, before gluing it back together in proper alignment. Got the pieces aligned properly this time, completely eliminated that seam...and then carefully re-scribed it because the seam is meant to be a panel line. I'm using Tamiya masking sticker sheet material to mask the already-painted inlet cones...and the stuff also makes good "elephant skin" that protected it from accidental slips when I was sanding/scribing the re-worked seam. I cut the finger off a latex glove and slipped it over the exhaust tube to protect it during the finishing process.
One good thing about the step problem on this is that I can now apply that same solution to the Su-25M1 project I shelved a year or two ago due to a large step on the bottom of the fuselage. I should be able to fix that now and finally get that project going again some day soon.
Finally was able to get back to this one again. Getting a feel for putting the engine nacelles together was a little rocky at first. I ended up with a HUGE builder-induced step toward the front of the top of the nacelle. It was big enough to where sanding would have thinned the material on one side far too much, so I had to cut through it with a scribe and use a .010 styrene strip to fill the gap the cutting created, before gluing it back together in proper alignment. Got the pieces aligned properly this time, completely eliminated that seam...and then carefully re-scribed it because the seam is meant to be a panel line. I'm using Tamiya masking sticker sheet material to mask the already-painted inlet cones...and the stuff also makes good "elephant skin" that protected it from accidental slips when I was sanding/scribing the re-worked seam. I cut the finger off a latex glove and slipped it over the exhaust tube to protect it during the finishing process.
One good thing about the step problem on this is that I can now apply that same solution to the Su-25M1 project I shelved a year or two ago due to a large step on the bottom of the fuselage. I should be able to fix that now and finally get that project going again some day soon.
