aslakh Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Hello. I've been having fun building the Hasegawa 109 G-10, until I wanted to install the leading edge slats. I hate that I am supposed to model everything deployed (slats, flaps), so I cut the tabs off to be able to pose them up/in. The leading edge slats, however, simply refuse to fit. What's the simplest way to fix that issue? Supposed to be a quick OOB build, so I don't want to cut and carve if I don't have to. Rick Griewski and LSP_Paul 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Matt Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Hi there and welcome to LSP. There is awesome information on nearly every conceivable detail on the kit you're building here with our tweaks list. HTH. Cheers Matty nmayhew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Williams Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 The problem is the thickness of the plastic on the leading edge slat. You either need to thin the slat, deepen the well under it, or make a new slat out of thinner plastic. Have you considered just cutting the well out of the wing leading edge and gluing the slat directly to the wing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Hello and welcome, If I recall correctly they just do not fit too well. You are stuck. I sanded the leading edge of the wing and then thinned the underside of the slat a bit to be flush with the top of the wing. HTH Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Hi there and welcome to LSP. There is awesome information on nearly every conceivable detail on the kit you're building here with our tweaks list. HTH. Cheers Matty Doesn't it just! • Kit has steps in the leading edges of the wing into which the slats retract. On real airframe, these steps are no thicker than the wing's aluminum covering. There are two solutions to fix this. The most accurate but also most complicated option asks for carefully cutting a thin piece of sheet styrene to fit into the slat well, with the sheet stock's thickness chosen to leave a very small step; cementing the filling piece into the slat well, being careful to keep the new step heigh constant; and then filing down the leading edge of the filling piece where it disappears under the slat. Second option is simpler: since the real aircraft's step is so small, an adequate and much easier fix would be simply to fill the step with putty and then file it to shape. Add one big bolt head (e.g. Grandt line) under the end of each arm of the opened leading edge slat. Reduce the thickness of the upper and lower rear edges of the slats by scraping those edges with a No. 11 knife blade. True nitpickers may also want to accurize slat sides as they are no flat as the kit part edges A small part of a huge amount of information Richard LSP_Matt and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslakh Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 Not caring about accuracy to a certain point (only has to look about right) most of those points don't matter. I only build vehicles seriously, aircraft are just to decompress. But not a single aircraft has just "fit". I think I'll just put it away, and most likely will never pick it up again. Not in the mood to putty, sand and scratchbuild something when I can build an Asuka M4 that doesn't need any of that. Anyhows, thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslakh Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 Or! I could just leave the slats deployed and live with the shoddy look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucohoward Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 I always close them up. Cut the tabs off and glue them in place. Fill in the underside with strip styrene, sand to shape, fill imperfections with Mr. Surfacer, CA or whatever you normally use. Easy and works well. Check any of my 109's to see. Good luck, Jay Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslakh Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 I might just do that, Jay. Away from the 15th to the 29th, and the very last thing I checked before I left were those slats. Kinda soured an otherwise trouble-free build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunwinglow Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Funny. Some of us go out of our way to sort out problems like this!! Trumpeter Swordfish. I rest my case..... alaninaustria 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslakh Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 I'd happily sort out those issues if I built mainly aircraft. But the Hase kit had been a dream up to that point, so I thought "maybe I fudged it? Or missed something?". Aircraft kits have "aircraft fit" - never perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 The vast majority of 109 slats were out when parked. It's good that you snipped the tabs because they are hideously oversized. I did that to mine (see link below) Rick Griewski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslakh Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 I'm basically going for a "look". Built it with the pilot figure and all, to capture the magic I felt when building kits as a child. Accuracy is straight out the window, I guess. ... next builds will be a dual Trumpeter and Revell G-6 build, and there will be enough head scratching in that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucohoward Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 It's also easy to find pictures of the slats retracted as they could be pushed in by the ground crew. For me I like the cleaner look of the wings with them retracted. You can even find pictures of one in and one out. Jay RLWP and Gazzas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Sure , they were free floating. They can be modeled any which way. I just thot it would be easier to leave them out. Rick Griewski, Gazzas, Troy Molitor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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