04 - THE BODY, part4.
Now the nose is done it's time "to grab the beast by the tail". In
fact this an easy job for the average papermodeler: a bunch of cones
glued upon eachother. Let us see:
Parts-sets 9 and 10 can be done the easy way: just cones. But not for
me! It happened to be so there will be a visible seam in the doors at
both sides of the body. Unavoidable at papermodels, but the designer
gives a way-around by replacing the 'original' doors by a new part in
one piece, without a seam.
To use this option one has to make the 2 parts-sets into cones with
the original doors cutted off. When glued together there is a door-
opening which has to be closed from the inside:
For closing a blank tab-part and the colored door are supplied. When
done right there door will be smoothly closed. To avoid a possible
shining through of the white tab I gave it a blue color like the
doors-edge. No mentioning needed that edgecoloring of the door-part
also is necessairy.
Finally the bulkheads in place and these 2 are done.
The following parts-sets 11 - 15 are for completing the tail. All
cones. Here they are:
A striking part on the body is the airscoop at the leftside.
Here I did not follow the designers' idea: the visible inside would
become all white.
Instead I seperated the bottom from the the 2 forwardparts. With the
triangular part I doubled it on greyboard, creating a complete bottom.
Covered it with the 2 forwards and the rear. Done!
Finally they all are glued together and onto the forwardpart of the
body. Like this:
Some remarks:
As you can see there is a little coloring-mistake on top, part 9. Not
important, but this is a review, right?
Also there appeared a little misfit between parts 11 and 12. This
could easily be corrected at the top, which area later will be covered
and be invisible inside the tailfin. I have no clue were the mistake
came from in my cutting and glueing. So it has to be something in the
design....
To be continued...