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snake7

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Thanks guys!

Started to put outer skin.
This step is crucial, and you must cut everything prices and dry fit every part.
I did minimum adjustments to two parts only: 243 and 244.
The fitment was satisfying and everything aligned well.

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To connect all parts in a best way i did it in this order:

Upper front skin (part 243)

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Two small front bumper skins (part 245)

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Bottom and side skins (parts 242, 244)

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Upper main part. First glued middle and then each side (part 250)

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And then all the small parts at the bottom and finished

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errors:
none
 

micahrogers

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I ran out of good compliments way back , and he is only getting better. Amazing work.
 

snake7

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Finished body with rear upper part.
First of all assembled power structure, so i can point where will be endings of exhaust pipes.

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Then inner exhaust pipes were bent from wire with isolation and glued inside.

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Attached power structure and covered with skin.

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Errors:
There is a design flaw - no inner skin for rear upper part. It just white, in contrast to lower one. Fixed it by power structure sides, making skin form spare color for firewall side and painting grey on rear side
 
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snake7

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Next step is the fenders.
In this publishing there is a double-sided printing and this a huge plus in in design. I wish every publisher could do so.

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For this time i marked bending lines from outside. This gave me accurate 90 degrees bend.
Before gluing to place, I assembled front and rear fender ends

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Errors:
None
 
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snake7

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Worked hard on all hatch doors and visor covers

Visor covers and front transmission cover

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Side hatch doors and hinges

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Rear engine hatch doors and hinges

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Fuel tank filler nozzle covers

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All doors on their places and can be opened
As i suspected, there is no way to open visors. The mechanism design is wrong... So they'll just remain closed

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Errors:
Visor cover mechanism designed wrong. Even with my addition of cardboard, visor base is not flash with the wall and stuck at the beginning of opening
 
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snake7

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So, it was a busy week, that shows little progress.
In this stage i decided to finish all the outer rivets.
As I mentioned before, got laser cut round rivets 0.6 mm and 0.8 mm from Drafmodel. Cutting is high quality, but as it happens in such small scale, sometimes they fall into layers, so i was in need to correct some rivets several times.
Probably will happen again... but it adds to overall look.
Want to mention about coloring - I didn't want to paint every rivet separately and going insane :) So I first I painted whole strips and then cut rivets out. Paint also got into slits around laser cut and solved white edges problem :rolleyes:

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Rhaven Blaack

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The added rivets do add a more "realist" look to the project. This is really coming together nicely!
 

Rhaven Blaack

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This is really looking good! everything looks very clear, clean, and crisp.
 
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