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I edited another "little" nose issue. I don't know if this was in my kit only, but i noticed some kind of a warp or a dihedral curve along the sharp part of the leading edge, symmetrical on both sides, and that curve followed a perfect shape on the top as well as bottom half of the fuselage.On the real plane that sharp part of the leading edge is impeccably straight, and this is easily noticeable on every single pic i have. Just an example:

 

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So here is the top fuselage part and the leading edge, viewed at as close as possible to 0 degree angle - this is the port side leading edge:

 

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and there, the same with the starboard side leading edge. I traced the warp with a red line:

 

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After gluing the 2 halves, and with using quite some force, the warped edges are straight as they should be. This does not affect the other coplex shapes of the leading edge. The pics are quite zoomed....

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

Hi gents! Happy New forum, and here are some new silhouettes as well. :) It was a lot of gluing, filling, drying, sanding, with numerous repeats. Finally it's just about ready for priming.

The top side:

 

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And the bottom side:

 

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Some fine sanding and a soapy bath, and Mr.Surfacer is just around the corner :)

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Guest Peterpools

Milan

Brilliant work on the edge warp - even seeing/finding it took a lot of Sherlock Holmes detective work.

Looking forward to Mr Surfacer taking center stage

Keep ‘em comin

Peter

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I'll definitely need some time to enjoy it like it is right now glossy and sparkling... Btw, the agenda for painting is slightly different from the initial one. I just got the new mig gloss lacquer and it turned out that it is originally waaaaay diluted as it is out of the bottle. so it leaves a very nice wet coat. i should experiment on that lacquer + water based temper paints for the main color and the filtering. 

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