June 26, 2024
The first item of business was to address the passenger entry door, the only major surgery I anticipate for this model. This particular model used a door that was larger than the other early Deltas, one that opened upward rather than to the side. The kit notes that this is a difference (though it is not included in the drawings of the AB plane in the instructions), and supplies a supplementary instruction sheet along with two masks for the properly-sized door and window. If the door was to be modeled closed, then some sanding off of handles and hinges and the filling of a window is all that would be needed. Then one of the masks could actually be used to represent the door on the finished model. However, since I have decided to model the door open, I had to cut out the door opening.