Wings attachment

Having performed as much sanding/filling work as I could, so I will have the least possible relevant work to do with the big, difficult to handle assembled Victor, I started to attach the wings. I first attachd the two inner parts with liquefied styrene as primary bonding agent, followed by water thin glue after attachment. Fit was positive. Here they are:

After some net research (isn't the net a wonderful tool?) of past builders comments, there were moans about the outer wings attachment AND shape: There should be a "kink" at the inner/outer wing joint, but If you attach them as thy are, they rest aft of the required position. Moreover, their resting position should be parallel to the ground: not only this is not the case, but also the outer parts themselves are curved (!), which is totally wrong

I thus:

1. Shaved the attachment lugs off and filed the mating surfaces flat (and perpendicular to their horizontal axis) with my heavy bastard file.

   

   1. Wrongly put (and angled) lug

   

   1. Remove and file with my trusty friend!

2. Brutally twisted the outer wing parts with my hands (yes, I did...), until the looked straight (oh, my!).

3. Affixed the outer parts at the inner parts with liquefied styrene and aligned them, so they are parallel to the ground, as in reality

   

   

   

   1. The whole plane leans a tad to the left, the wings are parallel to the ground

Looking better now (and drying...).

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers Falklands/Malvinas GB!

Gee, that was some major surgery my friend. Happy ending to it all though!

It's really looking like a Victor now, Spiros. Liquid styrene to the rescue, again! It is indeed a great thing to find postings by fellow modelers who have wandered down the same paths and found solutions to pass on that makes our builds easier than theirs was.

Shaping things...

An excess material removing took place (flaps, tailplanes/fin top atachment, inner/outer wing joints etc), followed by coarse sanding and puttying at many places (including some that the previous filling session had missed):

The bombardiers transparency was attached. Fit was not good, so it was faired into place with my Excel blade, folowed by my trusty friend, the bastard file. It will be filled and sanded as well, and thank goodness that the tankers had them painted over, as I will not have to polish it...

As a note: handling the big assembled Victor is not the easiest thing, let alone excess material shaving off, filling and sanding. It was thus a wise decision to resist the tempation of assembling it before filing and sanding all subassemblies. I am not totally confident that I would be able to perform those jobs with the Victor assembled, without sinking into frustration...

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks my friend @uscusn!

Thanks my friend @yellow10!
Yesterday it was yet another puty session, possibly the semifinal one, as, understandably, this kit requires a few filling/sanding loops. Soon to add some final external addons and then proceed to the paint shop!

As per the Carlos Santana song, my friend @airbum!