Revisiting!
Tonight I gave my poor Vautour some attention, hoping to ccatch up with it full steam ahead not far from now..
The bicycle type front and rear wheel bays were two gorgeous resin pieces that had been affixed with cyano and some reinforcements from the inside, après- fuselage closure...
Well, the joints proved not that strong and, after a couple of mishandles (my younger son's Vne proof tests...) they detached...
The good thing is that I found out before proceeding further with the model; I don't think they would withstand the not that small pressure from the landing gear, upon installation. The bad thing was that the fuselage was already closed, so I seemed to have no means of pressing the bays onto the fuselage, in order to be glued.
What I did, was to first apply thick cyano around the joint area, then a coating of liquefied styrene ONTO the cyano, then, carefully, by using my bent tweezers as a sort of "hook", I pulled the bays onto their attachment points, the cyano/lqs mixture oozing out of the gaps. This mixture, upon curing, formed a kind of strong bond between the resin bays and the stryrene fuselage. Here's how the bays look:
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1. lqs
2. lqs
3. lqs
4. lqs
5. lqs
Now all they need is a good cleanup and microfilling all gaps.
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