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This is how the interior looks like when all is applied. Personally I do like the way the harnas looks, much more realistic than PE shaped ones.
This is a superb looking cockpit, my friend @johnb! I agree, those seat belts look excellent!
@fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros
Yeah, that looks very good. I have all this stuff collected for mine, so I think I am going to let you inspire me and get on to it, now that I have the most recent manuscript finished.
@tcinla, thanks you very much, Tom. With your experience it might be difficult to inspire you but I will do my best.
It was a difficult decision but I could do no other than to hide the Quinta interior by closing the fuselage halves. There are no alignment pins but using some rubber bands and tape made it possible to get a nice fit.
@johnb - Sand that part down on the lower edges John, till it fits.
Amazing job so far, my friend @johnb! Good old sanding will provide a better fit in the front.
@tcinla, @fiveten, thanks for the advise. Will do that, should be not too difficult.
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To make the front fuselage part fit more precisely, grinding was done on both parts, the piece itself as well as the fuselage. Grinding was done in a tapered way (not sure if this is a correct explanation). The fit is much better now but requires still a bit of cleaning up. On Modelling Madness I found a review of the same kit from Scott van Aken and he had the same issue, so this is clearly a molding issue.
Fitting the wings is on the other hand very nice. Dry fitting learns that not too much additional work is required here.
Great work on the nose. Works a lot better than just sanding it down.
@airbum, thanks a lot, Erik.
Highly sophisticated rubber bands are always handy to make sure no gap appears at the wing roots.
Excellent treatment of the gap/mismatch, my friend @johnb! Good old sanding, a procedure seeming to fade away with the new zero tolerance Wunderkits that only need slight scraping of the mating surfaces 😁 Excellent progress, too, all looking wonderful!