Model Aircraft – September 2019

cover and most of it would be invisible once

the propeller was installed. I should have

followed the instructions because it was

quite hard to get the engine cover in

place after it was glued together. The

engine had to be squeezed into the

cover and only itted with a minimal

margin. The glass parts were a bit of a

puzzle because a section of windows

have to be painted aluminium On

the real planes, the glass parts were

replaced with aluminium panels. I used

images of the real plane as a guide to do this

correctly. The clear parts were masked with

Tamiya tape, using a new Xacto blade to

carefully cut out the frames to be painted.

Other parts like the landing gear, propeller,

bomb-rack and bomb were all painted

separately per the instructions and glued in

place when the paint had dried.

The masks were peeled-of the clear parts

which meant the build was nearly inished. Final

job was installing the antenna rod in front of

the cockpit and the antenna wire from antenna

rod to the tip of the tail. The wire was made

from stretched sprue. This was glued into place

with super glue and brush painted black. Apart

from illing and sanding the sink holes in the

fuselage, this was a very enjoyable build. MA

MODEL AIRCRAFT SEPTEMBER 2019

COMBAT ZONE – SB2U VINDICATOR

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