Here I'm filling the fuselage-wing joint, after putting the glossy white on the fuselage top. My recipe for painting natural metal + paint finishes is to put on all the paint first and do the natural metal last, so I don't have to mask over it. Minicraft thoughtfully provide recessed airfoil shapes for the wing roots to plug into, rather than a stub that sticks out or a flat side to try to glue tight to. Its a good system and it makes a nice model. If I ever do this kit again, I might try styrene strip filler. I hit on the slurry after one too many times of applying Green Stuff over the toxic Testors Liquid Cement in the hope the dumb filler would really stick to the underlying plastic... Kinda sort worked a bit... So then I tried diluting the putty with the liquid cement and it was a sticky nightmare, not so thin, not so easy to use. Gooey. So out comes the Aero Gloss Dope thinner, and bingo! It thins the putty to thick paint consistency. Now I take a short, chisel shaped brush and I can spooge the putty slurry into the recesses between wing and fuselage. And its not terribly thick. No shrinking, no cracking, no falling off. Built it up layer by layer, and it can be sanded smoooooth. If not mixed really smoothly, the solvent will leave pores in the filer. Liquid cement or another coat fill the pores just fine. Good stuff. I like it. You can see the wing stringers I made-up and put inside the nacelle landing gear bays, and the cutouts for the main gear legs that I added at the aft edge of the gear bays. I'd built the wings, filled, sanded, buffed out, and then sprayed Metalizer over them and the Metalizer showed all kinds of mistakes, holidays, falsehoods and misrepresentations... Soooo, after I glued wing to fuselage, and filled the joint. I filled more stuff on the wings, sanded and buffed again, and shot the second try at Metalizer... (Buffing Aluminum in a rattle can) 107-0768_IMG

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