And with life and Open University study still stubbornly refusing to move out of the way, here's an update on the meagre amount of modelling I've managed over the last few days.
A second coat of XF-14 was applied to the underside and, also, to the u/c doors.
It was at this point that I hit something of a dilemma.
The problem is that the lower leading edges of the fins are the wrong shape. Irritatingly enough it's just the particular aircraft that I want to build; all the other decal options have fin leading edge extensions. At first I thought I could live with this but the deeper I went into the build and the research the more I fretted about it
and so, naturally, I decided to do some corrective work.
The first rather brutal step was to prise the fins back off as modifying them while attached to the model would have been nigh on impossible.
This left hand one took a bit of fuselage away with it but it wasn't too difficult to repair with cyano and filler. Fortunately, it's opposite number popped off with no fuss.
Then I took my courage and my razor saw in both hands and set too. After some cleaning and profiling with sanding sticks the first one was at the desired shape.
Now you can see why I was fretting about it.
Then it was onto the second fin, re-attachment with cyano and a filling job on top of the fuselage. Next time I'm at the bench I'll contour the filler and get back to the paintjob.
I feel much better for doing this though
and some touching up was done.
