Okay. Now I sit on this thing for a week or so while the blue dries! This is officially the smallest kit that I have worked on! (I have some Trumpeter 350th planes in the stash. They will be interspersed among the 1/48 scales as if they were R/C planes, similar to how the EAA museum is set up. Just some fun for the display!)
The main landing gear on this is dainty with the rods only being 1/16" or so! (And yes, I still use Testors tube glue quite regularly, probably 85-90% of the time! Especially for structures that will take stress like fuselage joins.)
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For as old as this kit is the molding is spectacular (the engine cylinders in particular) and the fit splendid rivaling many current releases and exceeding the fit of many current limited run kits! This was the same experience I had building the Super Ace back in the 90's so other than the small size being a bit of an issue I had a good idea going in it was going to be smooth sailing! (The only fit issue I had to adjust was to remove some material to get the center of the wing flush with the bottom of the fuselage. On the real aircraft the trailing edge of the wing extends below the upward sweep of the fuselage bottom so the wedge shaped gaps between the fuselage and the wing seen when viewed from above are supposed to be there but there isn't supposed to be a step between the center section of the wing and the fuselage bottom.)
Speaking of the Super Ace, I'm off to work on that now! (Although getting the tailwheel mounted so a gap remains between it and the rudder is going to be troublesome methinks. I'll have to see how the truss assembly goes together and if it's up to the stress. I don't want to, but I may have to fake it and glue the wheel directly to the rudder.)
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