I would never have noticed unless it was specifically called out in the drawings of the D-13 that I was looking at...Stikpusher wrote:Those silly engineers had to change the positions of everything...
Nice work on all the changes and upgrades.
Since we are looking at those drawings, here are the cross-sections that indicate that the bulge was only evident along the top edge and not the bottom as depicted in the GM resin conversion...
I thinned the edges of the cowling flaps. Again, the D-13 is slightly different than the D-9 in that ALL of the cowling flaps are extendable. On the D-9, there is a fixed cowling flap on the starboard side.
I cut the fixed flap off and replaced it with a piece of brass sheet.
I COULD replace ALL of the flaps with brass sheeting but I elected not to. As long as the trailing edges are thinned, I think the plastic flaps look fine.
On my past D-9 builds, I erroneously assumed that the outline of the wing insert piece were along panel lines but this is incorrect.
So after I glued the insert pieces into place, I filled the non-panel line joints with black CA glue.