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Old 14 July 2008, 06:07 AM   #3 (permalink)
charlie bucket
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Also I have't yet found a filler that stays smooth and soft enough for me, it tends to get grainy and is hard to introduce into smaller gaps.
Mr. Surfacer 1000 works pretty well for me. It smells like nail polish, and I'm not entirely sure if it's anything but glorified nail polish, but it wet-sands nice and smooth.


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And now for the simple question that has been keeping me awake... I'm not too worried about mounting the top planes of the Nieuports, I chose those models as they have few attachment points for the cabanes and struts. But next up I would like to try the Roden Bristol fighter. Double bays, all those struts, I can already imagine the mess I could make of these. Is there anywheer at the Aerodrome, or anywhere else, that gives advice on this tricky operation?
Jigs do the trick.

Lance Krieg has a wing alignment jig illustrated at the link below, with plans:

Modeling Tools and Procedures

There is also a very clever idea I've heard in here of using Legos attached to a Lego base to hold the model in place while aligning the wing, but I just built the jig above, which works beautifully.

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