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[dhanners]

Originally Posted by N96HBK

How should we describe the shape? It looked a bit like a delta rocket to me.

Technically, it would be a truncated cone. It is a cylinder with one end smaller than the other, even though the difference in size is relatively small.

When I built John's KLM repaint of the DC-10, I encountered the same issue. To deal with it, I cut out the three pieces that make up the center section of the fuselage but left paper on the bottom seam. Then I laid them out and glued the edges of the pieces together.

I checked to see if the resulting assembly was square found it was't. Each side was off, at the rear, by about 0.5 mm. So I cut it square; at the forward end of the rectangle, I cut at the cut lines, but I added 0.5 mm to each side at the rear.

Then I rolled the assembly into a cylinder and glued it. You get the seam down the middleman the underside, but the lines leave you with a very narrow "V" running the length of the seam. Given that the bottom is a very light gray color, to replicate silver, it doesn't stand out too badly.

I tried building the KC-10 without the process, thinking I might work out properly, and discovered that it didn't. The white narrow "V" would show up against the dark gray KC-10 fuselage.

Just once, I'd like a model's parts to fit....

Here's a photo of the V:

[N96HBK]

Originally Posted by dhanners

Technically, it would be a truncated cone. It is a cylinder with one end smaller than the other, even though the difference in size is relatively small.

When I built John's KLM repaint of the DC-10, I encountered the same issue. To deal with it, I cut out the three pieces that make up the center section of the fuselage but left paper on the bottom seam. Then I laid them out and glued the edges of the pieces together.

I checked to see if the resulting assembly was square found it was't. Each side was off, at the rear, by about 0.5 mm. So I cut it square; at the forward end of the rectangle, I cut at the cut lines, but I added 0.5 mm to each side at the rear.

Then I rolled the assembly into a cylinder and glued it. You get the seam down the middleman the underside, but the lines leave you with a very narrow "V" running the length of the seam. Given that the bottom is a very light gray color, to replicate silver, it doesn't stand out too badly.

I tried building the KC-10 without the process, thinking I might work out properly, and discovered that it didn't. The white narrow "V" would show up against the dark gray KC-10 fuselage.

Just once, I'd like a model's parts to fit....

Here's a photo of the V:

Oh....me too.
KLM? I'd love to see that......

[dhanners]

I thought I'd had a thread about it, but can't find it when I searched. Memory ain't what it used to be.

[N96HBK]

Originally Posted by dhanners

I thought I'd had a thread about it, but can't find it when I searched. Memory ain't what it used to be.

You did have one.

[N96HBK]

MB Industries KLM DC-10
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