British phantom FGR.2 "Firebirds"

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I'd shine a strong light through the tail and mark the positions with a pencil, and then do a butt joint.... :hmm: Well actually I'd probably say bollocks to it and leave them off!
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Stikpusher wrote:
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Well…. your Phantom looks closer to the finish line than any that I have started in the past 15 years or so… :whistle: At least yours has external painting started.
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I'm with the others. Cut it in half and butt join it to the tail.
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Stikpusher wrote:Well…. your Phantom looks closer to the finish line than any that I have started in the past 15 years or so… :whistle: At least yours has external painting started.
Ah. alas it is dead, having been lost alongside a few other WIP and half my collection when my shelving unit collapsed a few years back.
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Medicman71 wrote:I'm with the others. Cut it in half and butt join it to the tail.
Yup. Looks like a little side trip to Hobby Lobby to pick up a razor saw tonight. :bored:
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Is there any chance that you can hold up the area to a strong light at different angles to see where the area needing to be cut out is located, and you can do it externally?
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I got the chance to use an LED pocket flashlight and I can see the spot where I was suppose to cut out. I’ve got two options.... mark and cut the hole or...

Cut the fin in half, use the light from underneath as a guide to glue the first fin. When I do the other side, I would mark two dots for front and back end and a line on tail rudder for the second fin.

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I'd still cut it in half, but that's just me.
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If you are going to cut the fin, it might be good to drill holes through both sides at each end first.
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