Softscience wrote:
I made a bit more progress. I glued up the fuselage tonight and it looks as though I have the same gap problems as Paul did on his kit. Wings and canopy fit fine though.
This is most assuredly NOT intended as a criticism, but I can tell you from experience and experiment that all of the later Airfix kits have very tight tolerances. If you have paint on the fuselage sides where the instrument panels and other bulkheads fit, you WILL have a gap in front and behind the cockpit. If you have paint on the edges of the IP/bulkheads as well, it WILL be worse.
If they are clean, and if you've given them a tiny swipe with fine wet&dry before starting (to make certain there is no fine (almost invisible) flash) on the edges it WILL fit perfectly.
Either mask the fuselage interior with narrow strips of tape in the locating positions while you paint, or be prepared to sand the edges of the bulkheads back.
Better to do this than filling the fuselage, because the canopies are precise fits too, and if the fuselage is a tad wide...
Shane
