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Rhaven Blaack, Thank you for sharing this Viper model! Any progress on the 1/33 scale (and more detailed ) version of your Colonial Viper Mk. 1?

It is a reverse tweezers. The arms, which are spread out when at rest, are squeezed together when inserting or removing the tips from inside the part.

I have always struggled to properly place formers inside the fuselage of aircraft models. I saw a post on another paper model forum suggesting the use of a ring tweezer used by jewelers. So, I decided to give this tool a try. I couldn't find one locally so I ordered it from Amazon.com. I can...

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Finished photos

The propellor hub consists of 4 segments and 2 formers. A tabbed joiner strip (mated to the back of the middle segment) is used to glue the segments together. Here is the finished propellor assembly. I cut the paper windows out of the canopy frame and replaced them with clear plastic...

The rear landing gear consists of 12 parts. The completed gear is located in the middle of the photo. The two rectangles, which are green on one side and gray on the other, are the doors for the rear landing gear. Here is the landing gear and doors installed.

The front landing gear is constructed in the usual manner. A completed landing gear is on the right. The subassemblies to build the other landing gear is on the left. Parts 53 and 56 were made by wrapping each around a piece of toothpick. Each front landing gear door consist of 5 parts. Once...

The tail (on the left in the photo) consists of the skin and former L (see the green arrow) that mates with former K on the rear of the fuselage. The stabilizers (on the right) are made by simply folding them in half and edge gluing the sides and top (leave the bottom open). The yellow arrow...

Wing fairings installed. Top view: Bottom view:

Now that the wing assembly and belly scoop are in place, it is time to add the wing fairings. The larger top portion of the wing fairings have a hooked portion (see the red arrows) which should be folded under. This provides a colored surface to the visible underside of the fairing. The smaller...

Welcome from Florida, USA!

Installing the wing assembly is a simple matter of slipping the wing spar into the slot in the bottom of the fuselage and aligning the back of the wing with the base of the air scoop. I applied glue in the three areas indicated with the yellow arrows. Now you can finish building the air...

Welcome from Florida, USA!

The last step in constructing the wing assembly is to close the wing tips by end gluing them. Here are the parts for the belly air scoop. The back portion of the belly scoop needs to be glued in place before the wing assembly is installed.

Shape and attach the wing extensions to the inner leading edge of the skins using the provided tabbed joiner strips (see the red arrow). Here's what it looks like when glued in place (see the blue arrow). Do the final shaping of the wing skins by wrapping each skin around the wing skeleton...

After cutting out the wing skins, there are a few things that need to be done to the skins. Two small, tapered slots need to be cut into the outer edges of each skin and then closed with small glue tabs (see red arrows). If the model is going to have landing gear down, the faux landing gear...

The interior structure of then wing assembly consists of a 3-piece spar, 6 formers and 6 spacers. Here is what it looks like when assembled.

I hadn't thought of that, but I think it is possible.

The cockpit assembly is too long to drop straight down into the fuselage, so I inserted the front end first and rotated it into place (as shown in the photos below). The gun sight goes into the notch in the front edge of the fuselage opening. Align and glue the edges of the cockpit tub...