Mars Snooper Build Part 20 Filling The Lug Ends

When sanding the lug to the correct angle, some of the inside skin of the lug doesn't get sanded off. It rolls inside the lug and should be removed.

Using a sharpened dowel, the rolled edge is pushed up and over the edge of the lug. Now it can be sanded off with 400 grit on a block.
The dowel was marked with pencil so you can better see the rolled skin to be removed.


There is still a small gap between the shroud oval and the tapered lug.
Thinned CWF was used over the gap line being careful not to get the filler inside the lug.



Here's the lug - glued, filled and sanded before spraying some gray primer.
If the vanes and fins were in place, it'd be very hard to get all the inside surfaces filled and smooth. I'll do some primer work before gluing it all together.

Look close and you can see thin strips of masking tape over the vane lines on Shrouds #2 & 3. Again this is to keep a line of bare card stock open for a better glue bond.