Hi everyone!
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1. Seals removed to be fitted later
2. Fit? Fit?
3. Liquefied styrene
I inserted and glued the wings at their respective position.
(before that, I removed the wing seals, to install them at a later stage, where they will be bent beforehand and then affixed. I think they will look more realistic...)
Since I had modified their root base, due to the reinforcements, the positioning and alignment were not foolproof; I had to insert shims and styrene bits here and there inside, to obtain the desired position.
When I was satisfied, I secured everything by gluing styrene bits wherever I could.
I then glued the front and rear fuselage parts together.
Fit was so so and I had to use clamps to hold the whole thing together. I also run some liquefied stryene around some bad fitting spots.
I was tempted to glue the air intakes, but I didn't do it, as to still have a chance of accessing the wing root innards, just in case something goes wrong upon glue curing...-as I told you, I had learned this lesson the hard way...
Starts to look like a Tornado now!
What a beautiful shape!