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Originally Posted by g0rb
Nice, that astromech droid looks ready for duty!
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Yes, he is!
On we go with the lower hull parts. I am not sure how the original intention was to glue them on but I made these connector tabs so I can get the hull into one piece. I cannot imagine another controllable way to get a clean seam between the parts.
I glue these two section together due to the different angles.
Then I started gluing on the parts one by one. First one one side ...
... and then the other.
That way I worked step by step to the front.
For the upper hull I also started to connect parts.
I think these are all the parts.
Adding helping tabs again ...
... and going step by step.
Reaching this stage.
Now I made the decision to first add this part to the hull. (I would do it different now and add the droid plate first and then add the complete upper hull to the main assembly) I thought it would be better to work the droid plate in afterwards but it posed a couple of problems. For example I should have checked the fitting of the plate. I had to cut out more space on the formers which was a little tricky. Well, you try it and you learn
So this is the main section ...
... and this is with the upper hull and nose glued on!
I am very happy with the result. There are only minor gaps I wasn't able to fill. Not sure how I can avoid that. In the instructions there is a part where it is advised to fill space between the formers and the hull with extra paper bits, but here if have the other problem
But with my colored under-glue-tabs they don't really show that much. And then there are parts coming later on the side that will help cover it up even more.
To be continued ...
Chris