M4000 in progress
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The wheel well walls are multi-piece affairs. Some care has to be taken when glueing the parts but they fit nice and are adorned by some really nice details.
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The wheel well walls are multi-piece affairs. Some care has to be taken when glueing the parts but they fit nice and are adorned by some really nice details.
![Album image #3 Album image #3](/albums/img/1/7/2/463172-12906-42-720.jpg)
Exhaust cans are deep and even feature turbine blades which will never be seen again in the depths behind the afterburner flameholders.
![Album image #4 Album image #4](/albums/img/1/7/3/463173-12906-46-720.jpg)
A little dry fit of the lower fuselage moulded together with wing inserts and the wing halves themselves. I was having a bit of a hard time here - I had to sand the inner sides of the wing inserts first to improve the fit. This helped erradicate the leadi
![Album image #5 Album image #5](/albums/img/1/7/4/463174-12906-47-720.jpg)
In the end, I've decided for an easier route - looking at reference photos, I noticed that its flaperons dropped, while the aircraft was parked - bring out the CMK saw and scribers and I simply cut the flaperons away. Dealing with that nasty seam is now m
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Wings attached nicely to the fuselage and only a little clean up was required. Same goes for the splitter plates and shock cones.
![Album image #7 Album image #7](/albums/img/3/9/3/466393-12906-29-720.jpg)
The tail is two-piece affair... nothing special - some seam cleanup required at the top and I've added a piece of styrene to strengthen the join with the main fuselage.
![Album image #8 Album image #8](/albums/img/3/9/4/466394-12906-95-720.jpg)
Burner cans are made of two pieces - exterior details is a little faint but so is on a real aircraft. Some careful painting should brighten them up. The only problem is that the burner cans had 6 attachment points and one molding defect on the inner rim.
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Finally in primer and ready for some paint!
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The kit supplied masks for the Red and Black were of a lot of help. However the masks for the transition from the intakes to the canards weren't as good and had to be replaced with Tamiya Masking tape.
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Decalling finished!
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Decalling finished!
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Standing on her own legs
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2 9 April 2018, 02:19
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thanks guys - check the finished album if you haven't already. pbrain - it is Mr.Paint MRP-004 White
5 July 2018, 12:05