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10 18 April, 16:16
Landlubber Mike AuthorThanks Robert! We'll see how this one goes. My 1/72 Planet Models Gamma kit was a mix between plastic and resin (they took an old MPM A-17A kit and modified it with resin parts for the Gamma 2J, and it took quite a bit more work to make it all go together than I thought. This is 100% resin, so hopefully it was designed thoughtfully and goes together more easily.
Interestingly, I looked at the Dora SNC-1 kit instructions and the parts and construction methods are almost completely identical to this Planet Models kit.
1 18 April, 16:58
Landlubber Mike AuthorActually, I went back to the Dora instructions and they construction seems different. Interestingly, the Planet Models kit has what seems to be fewer fuselage parts to make things less complicated. Fitting the pit between the two halves of the fuselage though is going to be an interesting experience.
19 April, 16:23
Landlubber Mike AuthorThanks guys, welcome aboard! I've been working on the cockpit - the instructions have you build the tub, then collapse the two fuselage halves around it. Instead, I mostly built the cockpit, glued it to one of the halves, and now have been trying to get the inner cockpit frames to fit. The two middle ones seem to be too big 🙁 I'm glad I did it my way as opposed to the instructions way or there was no way I could get the fuselage halves to close.
19 April, 20:13
Landlubber Mike AuthorThank you! Really appreciate it! I've actually got it all painted up, have a few touch ups but should hopefully be able to post pictures in the next few days.
1 8 July, 02:36