When I started this blog, I was already in the middle of a number of projects (!), my goal is to stay on one and finish, but sometimes glue has to dry, or you are waiting for Lucky Model to send a set of resin tires with snow chains on them or Stinky sits on your reptile brain and you wake up and you've started two new "easy" projects. Not even from your stash. Why bother to put them in order if your just going to buy something new and tear into it? This is an "easy" project, no resin wheels, no mysterious color conundrums, or etched sheets of brass. No pics of Leslie Nielsen. ("Do you like Gladiator movies?")
No pics of glueing the various parts together I'm afraid. The parts look rough on the sprues, lots of very weird looking stuff. Have to say, the engineering on this kit is pretty amazing. It all fits together very well. If you use old fashioned toob glue and spring clamps there are almost no seems to fill. Well done PL! One thing I've learned is to look and see what needs to be fixed based on what can be seen. I don't know how many times I fixed a difficult blemish only to find out it's underneath something. In the pic above I put model together and used a sharpie to mark seems that are covered up.
If you look closely (who has time for this?) the hair covers the shoulder, so no need to fix that seam.
Oooops.
Here is another trick to fix seams. Here is Altaira's hair (say that 3 times fast), at the bottom is a visible join. I have taken a file and made it roughly straight and compatible with some .030 styrene stock.
Add some fancy toob glue.....
Add the stock. Be liberal with the glue, you want the stock to melt. Use your fingernail to mush it into place. It will conform like a wet noodle in a couple of minutes.
Done the same on her foot. So much easier than putty. Make sure to really really let it dry. BTW, it is a perfectly valid excuse to go on Squadron (right now) and order a 1/24th scale ICM Model T. Use coupon code H0leinmyhead.
Here is the foot filed down.
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