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  1. I had this problem on a model I just finished. It originally wasn't a tail sitter but after I added a resin exhaust it became one. What I was able to do was to mix up some steel birdshot with some white glue and make a slurry out of it. Then, picking the shot out with tweezers I dropped the individual shot BBs into the nose through a space behind the rudder pedals.

    I don't know if you have any openings that you could attempt this from but it worked very well for me. Beware, though, that it takes a very long time to set. I left mine for about 4 days to be safe.

  2. I'd use Mr Dissolve Putty. Put it in the lines, let it sit for 24 hrs so it shrinks completely (this should be more than enough time), then sand it off. The problem with CA glue is that its easy to sand into the plastic since the CA gets very hard.

  3. So when the LiPo battery in the laptop over seat 10B catches on fire, and there's no indication of it in the flight deck, is the computer going to declare an emergency and land?

    How about when some passenger freaks out and yells "I have a bomb!" Is the plane going to divert and notify ATC and the authorities?

    How about when both engines quit over the Pacific? Is the computer going to ditch parallel with the swells or perpendicular against them? How will it know what the swells are doing?

    You see, there's more to it that auto landing and boring cruise flight with the autopilot on. Professional pilots are paid and trained to do things that they will probably never have to do...but we can still do it.

  4. Probably wouldn't work, even on some of the 1/48 kits. They definitely would be too small for the 1/48 F-16s, F-14s and F-15s just to name a few. And they look to be just a hair too small for F/A-18s.

    Don't get me wrong...I still think this is a good idea.

  5. Hey guys, this is my latest. Its the 1/48 Hasegawa F-2A.

    I used Mr Color paint almost exclusively on this one. I used Alclad II on the exhaust feathers and Tamiya acrylic on the inside of the exhaust. The squadron/aircraft specific decals were from the kit and they are the typical thick Hasegawa decals. In some areas the thickness is apparent. The general aircraft decals were AM.

    I faded the paint with postshading and gave it a light blue oil wash/filter. The oil wash really blended the camo together and weathered the dark blue very well. Some of the panel lines and some of the rivets on the upper fuselage were not molded in very well. Fixing that was beyond my skills, though.

    The fit of the parts was good overall. The two piece vertical stab needed a little work as the join at the base of the stab was not flush. The sides of the fuselage, where the grey areas inside the flaps are, needed some filling as well. Also, the butt joint where the wings join to the fuselage was tricky because they too were not flush. I used the "dump and pour" method to paint the intake.

    I'm not too sure the load-out is realistic. Probably not. But I thought it looked pretty interesting.

    I added some AM to it:

    1. Some of the PE from the Eduard PE detail set
    2. The Shull24 resin exhaust (excellent BTW)
    3. ASM-2s, CBU-87s and TERs from the Hasegawa JASDF weapons set
    4. Scratched static wicks.
    5. A spare resin ejection seat
    6. DXM and Afterburner Viper Zero decals for the general stencils

    Otherwise it was pretty much OOB. :rofl:/>/>/>/>/>/>/> Sorry, lame joke.

    Anyway, here she is. Comments are welcome. And I apologize for the dark pics. I'm still learning the photo side of things.

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