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I cut out the ladder door from the bottom fuse, and started on scribing some panels. I'm using a needle to scribe my lines, and of course it brings out a raised edge on each side as the plastic is moved. I tried sanding these edges a little, and it seems to just push it back in, and close up the line some what. Does anyone have a suggestion for removing this excess material, and leaving a clean, scribed line? I printed out several reference blue prints, and there aren't any of them that are the same. I decided to just go with one which I felt was the closest, and maybe use some artistic license. If it's not exact, fine by me.

Ladder bay

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Panels taking shape...had to fix a few boo boos...

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I'm using a needle to scribe my lines, and of course it brings out a raised edge on each side as the plastic is moved. I tried sanding these edges a little, and it seems to just push it back in, and close up the line some what. Does anyone have a suggestion for removing this excess material, and leaving a clean, scribed line?

delta99,

By no means am I a "master modeler" or anyone that's a pro at scribing, but I can tell you what I do on my rescribes. After I've scribed the lines, I give the plastic a good sanding. The sanding serves two purposes. First, it gets rid of those raised edges you talked about. Second, it fills all the lines with sanding dust so I can see the consistency of each scribe and any mistakes. Lightly and carefully running my scriber through the lines again cleans 'em out. Once all the dust is out of the line, I lightly brush a bit of Tenax through each line to smooth out the plastic. That's it. That's how I do it. Hopefully that helps. I'm sure someone with a better (and easier) method will give you their two cents.

Good luck!

Cheers,

-O

PS: Your scribing looks good so far.

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Thanks O, for the help and the nice comment. I'm sure I have some lines that are out of place, but they are close enough to convince me! I'll keep at it. I'm working on the ladder a little this morning. I sanded down the sides to make it a little less clunky looking, and I'm going to add the "speed holes" as well. I think the rungs look too thick as well, and thought about cutting them out and replacing them with some smaller diameter stuff. I'm sure I've got something in the "parts box"!

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I added the speed holes to the ladder. I decided to leave the rungs, they don't look that bad. I opened up the wells for the steps. I had already sanded off the raised panel lines, so I wasn't sure exactly where to put them. I kind of guesstimated their locations. It looked like the RIO's step was slightly higher than the pilot's, but I think I put it a little too high. Oh well, pretty close anyways

Ladder

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There was a small gap on each side when the ladder was in place, so I added a couple of strips to make the well deeper, closing the gaps

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Step cut outs, with some boo boo patching

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We're having a drought/heat wave, and it's been too hot to work out in the shop. I haven't really done too much else. I did make a Goose and a Maverick, and I put the cockpit together. I got the GRU7 seats for it. The details aren't very good, but I did what I could.

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I got most of the lines scribed on the upper fuselage, and decided to put it together to fill seams before scribing the bottom. I'm only going to scribe the outside of the bottom fuse. The very bottom won't be visible, and I'm getting so tired of scribing. I cut the fuse pieces off the intake trunks to help ease gap filling. I'm not going to put intake covers on. I added a panel inside the intake air bleeds. It's not accurate, but it blocks the gaping void of the entire inside fuse. It probably won't be very visible anyways. It will be difficult to fill the seams inside the intakes, but it looks possible. The thing I am really thinking about is how I am going to paint the seperate white and gray areas in there. I may just paint the entire inside white and deal with it.

While I was test fitting the cockpit, I figured out why the plane only comes with one figure. Goose's legs won't fit into his console. I wound up trimming a little off the bottom of his verticle console panel, and trimming a LOT off the inside of his legs. He fits in there now, but the way I positioned his arm, it was impossible to get him seated after the cockpit is installed. So I had to put him in place now, and hopefully he doesn't take too much damage during the rest of the assembly. The cockpit still needs more detailing work, but it is coming along. I put some wear on the non-skid at the top of the cockpit, where Goose and Mav step in and out.

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