Build log

 

 

 

After opening the box you can see the usual short run quality - lots of molding burrs... 

... unclean engravings... 

... and many casting errors.
To start construction there is a lot of grinding, carving and engraving. 

After a few dusty hours, the first parts were removed from the frames and roughly cleaned. 

 

 

The interior work could now begin.
The cargo hold remains closed, so there is no need to go into every last detail - the whole thing serves more to stabilize the fuselage halves. 

Glued on a few pieces of plastic sheet to achieve a better fit between the front and rear fuselage. 

Deviating from the instructions, I glued the front and rear fuselage parts and the cargo compartment doors on each side. 

After some filling and sanding it looks pretty good. Engravings and details that were lost during sanding have been renewed. 

The glue seam on the cargo door is very thin. To stabilize it, I cut the marked part in half and glued it on each side. 

After a suitable indentation was scratched into the plastic, the first etched part could be glued on. 

All windows in the cargo hold are glued. 

A few etched parts were installed in the cockpit.