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Old 11-07-2019, 12:14 PM
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Red face Wings- part 2

The next step is to build the main landing gear wells. I added a wood dowel pinned with paper clip cut to length to support the struts later on.
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challenge is to glue it in place and make sure it fits both the fuselage side cheeks and wing cut out. This was not one of my better works.
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ready the parts
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Now glue the wings on. Top first and then when dry, the bottom. I tried to fit bot seams, but the bottom side refused to cooperate for me and resulted in a poor fit.
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both wings are on.
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I had to cut out and move one of the gear wells as it was off enough not to fit properly. I don't know how the original designer managed to fit all the surfaces together perfectly. It is extremely complicated process.
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Another observation is that the wing upper surfaces appear wavy. For some reason, the wing cross section and the internal framing/landing gear well did not match properly and I over pressed it onto the frame. Oh well!



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