Wow, what a few weeks it's been Between the incoming Tropical storm coming up the east coast and then after the storm had gone by, we THEN had on and off brown and black outs for days. Ugh. But in between I did make it to the hobby desk.
The Ae607 continued to fight me to the very end but I declared victory. This is the last time I quickly look that the parts fit - paint both halves - only to find out that when the times comes, they really don't. Turns out the front needed just as much sanding down as did the cockpit area and the rear by the exhaust.
Once the parts fit and glued down, then it came time to repair the paint job. I think in the end it became a decent 3ft. model.
Another one that turned into a fight was the LRV. In the end I had to rip the entire interior out. I was just tied of having to sand away most of it because the fit was perfect - no one will see inside anyway.
I got the two halves together after sanding away a bit of where the fuselage meets the wings. Then the slot where the starboard vertical fin goes was about 1/2 the size of the port one (which fit perfectly) and I needed to take a dremel and then some files to it to get the opening to accept the fin.
The top and the bottom are together but you can see I'm still having problem with the g d white color. I needed to sand out a spot visible in the middle of the top and after 3 or 4 coats it's still visible! I think I'm about to go to the hardware store and get some serious can of white paint! But at least the fins are on and the small gaps filled in nicely. Check back to see if I get this painted or does it get bounced off the wall. Thanks for looking.
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