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Today I made up the wings and finished the nose section. I tried to clean up all the glue blemishes and fingermarks by swabbing the whole model with lightly dampened tissue paper. When I started rubbing down the model, the clear overcoat spray softened and rubbed off, taking some of the printing with it. I don't know if it was the damp tissue alone, or a reaction from the super glue accelerator that softened the overcoat. When I mounted the canopy, the ink flaked off with finger pressure. I will fix this by cutting out parts from the printer paper printout and glue them over the metallic canopy parts.
There was a large gap where the wing's lower surfaces contact the fuselage. I had to make the bend in the lower fuselage below the wing much tighter, and using CA glue managed to merge the two pieces together.
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