Tag: fault-finding

• Mitsubishi Betty – Part Two – Not-So-Ghostly Seam

  

  I wondered what that cracking noise was… It was the top fuselage seam giving way. I must have flexed a wing too much and surpassed the tensile strength of the thin cement used to seal the fuselage. Well that’s what undercoat painting is designed to catch – the flaw that occurs before you add a…

  Dick Stein

  July 27, 2025

  1:72 scale, damage control, design, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, subassembly

  fault-finding, filling, seams