 | XB-70 valkyrie Italeri 1:72 kit no: 1282 build start: June 30 2016 |
Well, 4 days and 45+ photo's later we continue our quest.
First off - the finished cockpit
And then the completed nose section
With the spine and a 30 cm/12 inch ruler:
And then we hit the first real problem: here's the upper wing parts put together:
Woops
En how about this
Nose section, spine and upper wings together for a full length picture: almost 80 cm/32 inches
En when you fit the lower halves of the wings to the upper halves, well time to whip up a new batch of styrene filler
Well, let's hit it with some styrene and some filler
The intakes btw also will need some work
After more sanding, we come upon this
And some panellines restored.
Unfortunately, the glasswork fits, but not very well
Get out the masking tape. Masking off is easy because there's a considerable height difference between the glasswork and the framework
Too bad the sides also have glass in em, but no framing whatsoever
Won't be exact, but good enough.
En then we add some styrene to fill the holes, as well as some homebrew filler.
After sanding, it looks somewhat decent. If it's good enough I won't know until this gets some primer.
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