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Old 10-02-2015, 08:57 AM
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I'm really impressed at the fit of the fin actuator housings over the corrugated wrap, expecially if you didn't do any putty work.



The fin and fin actuator housings are molded together. The fin assemblies are two pieces, a left and right, with the seam right down the middle. There are raised areas on the vacuum form wrap that the fins fit over so it would be next to impossible to get the fins on crooked unless of course you put your wrap on the tube wrong.

The vacuum form wrap gets installed with 3M spray glue. ALL of the plastic parts were assembled and attached to the model with Tenax-7R since you don't get any big globs of glue that need to be cleaned away before it dries. The real trick to building this model is keeping your glue joints neat, what ever type of glue you use.


John Boren
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