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Old 01-21-2011, 08:36 PM
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I worked on filling in some really bad places on the Nike Smoke Nose. A glue was used at some point in it's life that really attacked the plastic, so bad on one side it deformed the nose into a slight curve and there were several sunken places. Squadron putty worked well in filling in the blemishes, looks good enough for me.

Next I'm starting to work on an Estes Orbital Transport. The shuttle's wings were broken. The main carrier is missing the nose cone, the canards, and some of the rudders on the tail are missing or broken off, but all were fairly clean breaks. This one I remembered I have a set of original decals for, so it will definitely get sanded down and repainted.
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