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Has anyone built this kit...or tried to? When I got to the split cowling pieces and the fit of the lower piece to the wing joint and the two pieces to each other and the fuselage, the fit was very poor to say the least. Did anyone else encounter this? I'm about to trash it.

 

Thanks,

 

Bob

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Not to ask the obvious, but Is the cowl supposed to fit to the wing and fuselage?

Or is there meant to be a big gap between those, with the cowl only attaching to the engine?

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  • 2 weeks later...

I put it on the back burner for a while

 

I went back to it yesterday and hacked off everything on the firewall, cut a chunk out of the alignment brace on the upper half of the cowl (to give me some flexibility to adjust things) and cemented it all together. The cross section of the cowl does not match the cross section of the fuselage where the two meet. And the joint of the lower cowl/fuselage bottom piece does not align very well with the lower wing where the two join.

 

I'll keep plugging away and start throwing putty at the less than stellar fit.

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