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Old 09-06-2019, 12:12 AM
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Wheel fairings or spats. Whatever you want to call them, they can be tricky to do in 1/100. I've found that the pink or purple join tab lines that Bruno gives us more often that not are more of a 'suggestion' to give you, the builder, an idea as to how to join two parts. He hasn't done this with the wheel fairings on this model, so it's up to you how to deal with it. Experience should tell you that because of the curved nature of the front and rear faces that small 'shark's teeth' joiner tabs will be in order. Keep them down to a minimum, only using what you need to get the shape of the fairing.
You can see I've drawn two on each side, front and rear. Pre shape the ends as usual then each tab at a time work through one side of the fairing then the other. Touching up with paint will be easier done when they're on the model.

The legs are a three piece affair (again with no tabs), as to how they go together becoming obvious after studying the drawings. They neatly slide into each like on the full size.

For no particular reason, I decided to construct each fairing/leg combination first and fit each as a unit.

To get the right fore and aft angle (or 'rake') when viewed from the side, I needed to trim the top of each leg. It still wasn't enough without removing more than I wanted to, so after putting a dob of PVA on the attachment point under the wing to soften the paper, I knurled it with my burnishing tool to make a sort of impression which helped a lot in getting the final result.

Comparison with the drawings showed I ended up pretty close. A 'lick-o-paint' and they were done.

The wheels themselves tomorrow.
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