Two of the (mirrored) fin pieces were marked for the vertical fins, shown below.
The BT-5 smaller version was marked at 1".
The upscale markings are at 1.80".
Lay a bead of glue down the outside edge of the vertical fins for the dowel "gun" placement.
On the left, I'm running the side of my finger down the fillet, smoothing the bead and removing excess.
On the right is the even glue bead. This makes a cleaner glue joint with less glue "squeeze out".
The dowels are set into the glue line.
The rear of the dowel is even with the trailing edge of the fins.
After previously evening out the blue bead,
there is very little (if any) glue to smooth or remove from the joint.
It's interesting that most folks are apt to call those dowel pieces as "guns" -- even if that doesn't seem to make sense with the motif as a passenger airplane. When seen from the front, the shape of the wings give an aggressive feel -- similar to that of the Klingon Bird of Prey from Star Trek (which oddly enough does have "guns" of sort on the wingtips).
ReplyDeleteThis does give rise to an interesting question -- what was the original design concept for this model look like? There was that story about some of the original concept drawings for the GoonyBirds lineup -- "Missile Toe" appears to have been a parody of the V-1, "Cloud Hopper" appears to been parody of the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, "Sky Shriek" and "Star Snoop" appear to have been a parody of WWI-era fighter planes, "Zoom Broom" appears to have been a parody of something like a Polikarpov I-16.
Hi Naoto,
DeleteI see your point, "guns" on a passenger plane.
Yep, the original GoonyBirds were cartoon planes, like the exaggerated muscle car drawings from the 1960s. The original designs had a harder edge, probably softened to fish and rabbits by some marketing research.