The port wing has now been reprofiled. this was done in three stages.

First, by laminating a wooded support/profile from coffee stirrers - what else?

Second by fixing the trailing edge of the upper wing to the lower wing in the correct position. This I found corrected the profile of the upper wing almost entirely, but put the upper wing under some stress. This still required the wooden support to fully restore the profile and to allow the trailing edge to be glued in place ( I considered pinning it).

Third,the trailing edge was then clamped and placed a specially chosen jig so that glue could dry undisturbed...

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I like your "specially chosen jig" holding fixture... 🙂 🙂

I see what you mean about the wing profile. What year was your model kit manufactured / boxed ? There should be a copyright logo on the box and the kit instructions that should also give you the year.

My build was the first edition, (1974) but I have several kits in the stash that were released later. I'm wondering if it may be a problem with the molds ? Either way you got it handled.

It's coming along nicely David. Hopefully tonight you can take care of the seams. Moving right along.

Wow that is quite a gap. I just finished my Devastator and I didn't encounter that with my kit. I have the early kit the white box. I just wonder the later repops are having this issue. Anyway you seem to have it in control. Keep it coming.

Filling sanding and filling and sanding again, but we seem to be there and should be able to get some paint on the fuselage soon.
the Devastator will be a bit late but we won't be far away!

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Looking good Dave... Keep plugging away at it, and before you know it...

How did the masks work out for you on the corrugations ? (Once you paint the insignia blue on)

O.K. Some interim pictures of the results of using the masks. Reasonably pleased with how these turned out particularly on the corrugations. A little touching up to do before the gloss coat.

In future I would depart from the Montex instructions and paint in the base coat (blue grey) first, and then spray the white and dark blue - the benefit would be not having to remove and then replace the large circular mask - which means that you run much less risk of a white "halo" on the circumference of the marking.

I will put in the red centres and touch up tonight.

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These US Insignias turned out very nice Dave... I'd honestly let them be.

I have found out that (especially when you're spray painting something), if you use a small brush to touch up it sometimes becomes more noticeable due to brush marks. More so if it's in an area that is highly visible.

I like your weathering idea... Thanks for keeping us posted with your progress.