Thom,

I seen foam used before and it is perhaps a viable option, but I must confess I'm fairly 'old fashioned' in my methods and the advantage of using plastic interior structures means adding additional plastic spars for the wings et al is much easier.

I did also have a modelling buddy who used expanding foam... with disastrous consequences. The whole model was blown apart - so I suppose practice makes perfect!

Tom

Also re expanding foam, even if it works at first I'm not sure that it's inert, that is, may react chemically to affect the kit plastic/paint, in time.

Time for another update on this project as it's been a while.

With the rudder complete it was installed at an angle and some other, finer details added from scratch.

I then began the painting process, which started with the engines. The fans have an area around them within the nacelle which is there to stop any blades escaping the engine in event of failure and damaging the main airframe, so this was masked and sprayed first. The panels that make up the interior of the nacelles were then replicated with an initial spray of a medium grey, which was masked off and then aluminium being applied to the remainder of the inlet interior. The fans themselves were then sprayed with Humbrol MetalCote and polished to a sheen.

The engine fronts were then masked off, and the whole airframe was sprayed in Air Mobility Grey, before a good polish with some MicroMesh and then a few coats of Kleer in preparation for decaling.

The landing gear had the mounts made from scratch, and then the Anigrand gear was installed. This took a lot longer than I liked, and the model did spend some time on the 'naughty step' for a while before this task was completed!

I'm now starting the long task of adding decals - so far the nose section has been completed, but there's still lots to do before I can say decaling is complete.

Until next time,

Tom

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Hi Magnus,

Thank fully I have a large and fully boarded attic - there are many large models up there already so the wife won't even notice this one making its way up there 😉

This looks like a gem!

Not as much time at the bench as I'd like of late, but work continues on the C-17.

I've added the wheels and scratch-built their doors for the main gear. I've also added the natural metal areas on the APU, engine pylons, leading edges and the underside of the flaps from Bare Metal Foil.

All that's left now is to scratch the remaining undercarriage doors, add a few aerials here and there, and do the cockpit glazing from acetate.

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Wow Tom, you get around. Nice to see this one finished!

now I must get my Anigrand build finished!