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    The Official 2014 "All the Rest" Community Build-Extended to April 31st

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    Well here we are mostly together save for the elevators:

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    and primed and ready to go for the preshading.........

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    and ..................preshaded!

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    I've gotta say what I did skip over in pictures and won't in the text here is the 4-5 hours of freekin' sanding that I had to do to correct the HORRIBLE fit between the fuselage halves at the bottom of this birdie! Simply couldn't believe it after all the test fits but hey, that's modeling. I got it ironed out.

    The Official 2014 "All the Rest" Community Build-Extended to April 31st

    in Community Builds

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    Well guys I've got the cowl compartment/ piece put on and most of the body work completed on the fuselage. So far so good. Just need a little "clean up" on the oil reservoir compartment and I'll call that done:

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    and for the real cool development (at least I'd like to think so) is the addition of a landing light to this sucker. I have yet to figure out why a model manufacterer would put a "hole" in the leading edge of a wing to install a lens over..............absolutely nothing! But that's what they did! Here's what we normally would have:

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    You see, I just can't let this slide, so....................

    I went to work making a scratchbuilt landing light. I do have car models in my stash (don't worry, I'm not going to hack up anything-I want to build this kit one day) I have Mark Martins 1994 Thunderbird in the stash and used one of those "cutaway" tabs you always see on the windshields:

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    The right hand one is gone and is being used here. I trimmed the clear part up quite making it just a hair smaller and not as thick. I painted the back of the "light" silver and added one drop of future to the face making it concave in appearance and giving it a true glass shine. I had a piece of resin stock from all these add on resin kits I accrue and cut that down so that it would fit between the wings halves and painted it RLM 02 gray, then stuck the landing light to the base and put it in the wing.............

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    The foam below the wing MG17 gun compartment is for a "push" from the bottom when the wing halves are assembled. Ever have something like that looking really cool and later on in the years or with just the right jarring the whole thing falls inside? Aint gonna happen folks! Just a little insurance is all.

    Anyways this is what the whole thiing looks like now instead of a "hole":

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    and it comes fairly close to my referencesemotion-5.gif:

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    The Official 2014 "All the Rest" Community Build-Extended to April 31st

    in Community Builds

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    Thanks Wayne. For the longest time it seemed like he was the only one indeed. I'm going to be finding out this year how the Eduard brassin stuff stacks up when I build Eduards new Bf109G-6. There's alot of hype over that kit and I've seen an article review of it already. Hell I've already got my decal sheet for that build and the particular kit I want is months away from release. Supposed to be really killer kits from what's going around and from what I've seen in the bulld pics.

    The Official 2014 "All the Rest" Community Build-Extended to April 31st

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    Next up is the cowl oil tank reservoir. This is another Verlinden piece from WAAAAY back when! Back when Verlinden was one of the only suppliers for resin that I knew of. This and the wing mounted MG17 machine gun internals were all I felt like using out of that set! I guess a decent build could be had out of the rest of it but it would be ALOT of work. Here's what I started with:

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    Well this didn't exactly line up with the fuselage too good. Go figure! It's time to start integrating the resin detail with the kit supplied stuff again!!

    Pictured below on the left is the OOB part with both halves glued together. On the right is a OOB part from my spare Stuka kit with the L/H side panel cut out:

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    Now I had to cut the "compartment" out of the resin block and get it ready to install under the assembled cowl halves:

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    and here we are with the oil reservoir compartment tucked away under the cowl piece. Still some minor clean up and trimming to do.

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    This is it installed onto the fuselage with the compartment and oil reservoir painted up and weathered. Still have some clean up to do but it'll turn out ok.............

    Wingsandfuselage005_zps63586428.jpg

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