Hello everybody,
no sooner said than done!
So I've sanded the
Support plate between two nail files to a thickness of about 0,3 mm, and I have to say that I liked it better than before.
Now, the bow had to be glued as exactly as possible between the
Support Brackets, but unfortunately I had to remove the stencil, which had previously fixed the position of the bow.
The crunchpoint here, however, is that the bow must be aligned with the
Feedline,
and the
Umbilical Plate should lie flush against the opening of the
Orbiter Door.
To accomplish this, I drilled the end of the
Feedline in the middle and inserted a piece of Nickel silver wire as
Centering aid.
In this way I succeeded, first to glue the
Support plate at the
Crossbeam and then the
Feedline-bow with the
Support brackets, which will make the further work on the parts of the
Cable Tray-TPS cladding much easier, since nothing can slip anymore.
Then I've bent an
Evergreen Strip (0,4 mm x 0,5 mm) under hot air around a rod (Ø 3 mm) and glued one ring of it in front of the Support plate.
Then I've scratched the so called
Pivoting Support missing at
Airfix and glued it just behind the
Intertank.
But this is only one half of the
Feedline Support, as one can see in this image, as there is still a clamping ring over it,
Source: System Definition Handbook SLWT, Vol. I (Lockheed Martin)
which should be much narrower than at
Airfix existing ring, as the comparison with the original photo shows, so I would have to modify these rings also a bit.
Source: forum.nasaspaceflight.com (Jester)
Then there are also missing the wider
Rings in front of the supports, which I'll scratch too.
So all in all a lot of odds and ends, which is still waiting for me.
