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A sprue example with flash
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Padding out the main doors
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New bulkhead and floors
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Floor and bulkheads
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Test fit poor windscreen fit
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Rescribing begins
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Not perfect but....
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Good old dymo tape
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Cockpit seats and panels and ballast bays
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Artist board for base size check
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Flush windows
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Clear epoxy resin poured and cured
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Transparent enough
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What I used
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Masking for a cut
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The cut
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Bulkheads glued in and ballast added.
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Balance check
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Fuselage halves glued
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And filled and sanded
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Adding the windscreen and crown
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Not a bad fit but sanding needed.
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Coarse sanding
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Finer sanding
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Smoothing off
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The result of more smoothing and polishing
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The kit
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Frame for nose cone
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Nose cone frame, shaped
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New profile
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