Making the most of the ability to sand while home alone, this rose to the top of the stash - I think that the last time I saw it was in 2003, when I used Tamiya 2 part putty to fill the most amazing gaps (1/4" +) in the wing/fuselage gaps...still needs quite a bit more filling and sanding...
More progress on Udarnyj...
The major hull sheets in place...
Stern plate in place - although I used the kit part as a template for shaping this area, it didn't match up so I ended up using a piece of the hull stock colour to cover the area...
These are the bow hull sides including the extended areas that provide a wall around the bow deck (this probably has a proper nautical name - I just don't know what it might be!) - the parts that form the inside of this, part of the 16 series, are misnumbered with the right and left side reversed -pretty obvious as they will only fit one way...Could fit these because the triangular support braces Yet to be fixed) have to mount on to the deck ergo the deck must go on first...
Here you can see the forward deck fitted...as I had sprayed this area black to darken the inside of the anchor chain compartments, I did not notice that I had no solid surface on which to mount the bulkhead between the two deck levels. Fortunately i had made an impulse purchase of Milliputt filler during my last resup visit to Modelcraft & Hobbies and mixed some of this up to fill these voids. Still have to sand it in to the final smooth vertical surfaces...
Have brought the parts on-base with me this week with the best of intentions to do some more prep work while away from home but unfortunately my nights aren't quite panning out that way....
What hapened to the 1/32 Vulcan?
