That may prevent some repeat fill steps, but I still have to fill the joint around the low end of body tube!
After CWF and sanding I still had to do a shot of filler/primer.
The top of the hanger deck was masked off.
The catalog picture of the Klingon ship has a reverse or down dihedral of the wings. When gluing on the wings, mine ended up almost flat with a slight dihedral. Mentioned earlier, I thought those small tips at the top should touch. The instructions do not mention the down dihedral until you see the decal placement later on.
Here's the assembly turned over.
The wing angle is equal on both sides, there is some camera distortion.
Still turned over,
you can see the root edge which will get a glue fillet.
The anhedral of the wings (i.e. the wingtips being lower than the root edge) is one of the visual characteristics of the Klingon Battlecruiser. I do recall that the anhedral of the wings was depicted in the illustrations (but not mentioned in text) for several of the steps. The gap at the top of the wing bulkhead pieces was shown (but not indicated in text) at the step where the engineering hull braces were glued.
ReplyDeleteI think you might've painted yourself into a corner by assembling the hangar deck prematurely -- that forward bulkhead is going to get in the way when you try to attach the engineering hull top.
Hi Naoto,
DeleteI didn't have any problems sliding the cardstock engineering hull top piece under the hanger deck assembly. It slipped in and "locked". I've probably over thought this build and was trying to make a difficult build better.
By assembling the hangar deck assembly prematurely, you're apt to cause some fit issues. The assembly steps does give some allowance for some variance (i.e. "slop") where the hangar deck forward bulkhead can be positioned for a better fit against the vacuform piece attached to the engineering hull top. The diagrams show a gap between the folded-down side tabs of the hangar deck top piece and the bulkhead pieces (a subtle indication that there could be some variance in how these pieces go together). The other potential fit problem would be with the vertical fins. From the photos it appears you didn't leave a gap between the folded-down tabs of the hangar deck top piece and the bulkheads -- which could mean that the fins might not fit in the gap.
ReplyDeleteHi Naoto,
DeleteThere is still the gap for the vertical fins. I just have to scrape off some paint at the gluing areas.