Tag: seams

• 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

• Mind The Gap

  

  I started my search for the perfect gap filler to make my plastic models seemingly seamless a long time ago. Well six years or so, anyway. When there was still Stanbridges – Elvis and dinosaurs having passed away. The first tube I bought was from Tamiya, and unlike most of their products, was far from…

  Dick Stein

  January 23, 2022

  1:72 scale, adhesives, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  fillers, seams, workflow, Workshop

• MiG 15 – Part Four – Seams To be Working

  

  The anhedral of the MiG 15 wings… -3º…was cranked into the build today and I like to think it was successful. You’ve seen the jigging in the last post. The cementation was Mr. Cement Deluxe smeared on both the wing and the fuselage. It sets up pretty quickly and goes hard enough for jazz well…

  Dick Stein

  June 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, adhesives, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  gap-filling, putty, seams