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speedgraflex wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 10:12 pm Thanks, Carlos!!!!! Using Windsock Datafile #26 is making a huuuge difference in my ability to suss out how this is supposed to work and how the shape is supposed to be formed.

As an aside, that is how my Dad taught me to form putty; very little top sanding. This comes from auto body shop training but it has stood by me in all model building. Get the putty as close to a righteous fit before it dries than do the subtle refinements. I'm still biting my tongue when I see any builder put globs of putty on a surface. To each his own, but I know this is best for me, which ultimately is what counts.

I’m with you about globs of putty on a build. I have a putty application tool made by Squadron that I use like a butter knife for precise application of putty. It works pretty good for that task. Your Dad taught you a great technique for using putty to minimize the sanding follow up work with the stuff.

Damn....

Fantastic work Bruce! Brilliant catch and fix on the exhaust pipes.

Thanks, Tom! Thanks, Duke! I’ve learned from both of you, too, as well. I sincerely appreciate you, and thank you for following along.



Revell’s interior part is a “V” shape when it really should be a flat pipe. I’m not really sure why this was fudged by them, but that choice made an accurate internal cockpit impossible unless the exhausts were cut off. I went to great pains to keep the original exhaust tips.

I used a piece of aluminum tubing in my Camel for that…

That's still a Revell part sticking out there which is oversized; it was the position that was mucking up the cockpit I am making but now that has been corrected as much as possible. I also built the the detail piece on the forward deck that holds that metal in place. You can see that as a thin black stripe over the putty. That also correctly locates the detail piece.

All looking good Bruce.