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While the streaking and  grime dries I got to spend some quality time with my Opti-Visor and work on the navigation lights.

 

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.5mm holes drilled on back of kit supplied navigation lights.  Luckly the sprue was quite thick and I was able to drill the holes while on the sprue.  After drilling I carefully added paint in the hole with a 0/10 brush.  One of these days I'm going to use blue as the bulb for the starboard light is actually blue and looks green when bulb is on.

 

After paint dried I carefully scraped excess paint with a sharp blade.  Then with a micro saw each lens was removed from the thick sprue.

 

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Painting the reflector base of these lenses presented a masking challenge.  To mask the lenses I pressed each lens into Tacky Putty base side up and applied Alclad Dark Aluminum.   Applying in light layers building up as not to have paint bleed on sides of lens.

 

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The white lens does show up. 

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Aerial rigging is my next step and I opted to get some practice (for future WNW builds) making making my own turnbuckles.  Using Albion 0.5mm Nickel Micro Tubing and Ultra Wire X-Small I made turnbuckles.  A little time consuming but I'm pleased with results.

 

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Nav lights installed.  Drilling a .5mm hole and inserting the turnbuckle is easier than said.  Not as clean as I'd like it.  FICE

 

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Much better...

 

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EZ Line small is great to work with as it's very forgiving and stretchy too.

 

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Wonderful!

Some Hawaiian sun would be awesome for the final photo-shoot.  B)

Congratulations!

 

Juraj

 

Thanks Juraj.  When I do final photo shoot I will use a sky blue (for Hawaiian sun) background as well as black

Superb work, Rick! And a terrific result.

 

Kev

Cheers Kev.  Final pics almost done.

 

dreamy! 

Thanks Jim.

 

Beautiful!

Thanks Gazzas.

 

Awesome result, Rick!! Very nice indeed.

 

Jay

Thanks Jay.  See you at Model Classic?

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