I thought about that but then thought: rather be cutting in resin.
I also thought about using the forward revell part and than mating that up with the CMK..
This is what I'm doing. For some reason the resin gondola didn't line up so i'm making a green card flange.
Lots of seams to still get rid of and flaring it all in.
Lots of fitting and sanding going on to get the gondola to fit.
Masked the gondola windows inside and outside. I'll post some pics later tonight showing what I'm up against.
Here's an update.
I also bought the CMK exterior set with the fuel filler caps and life raft compartment.
I'm adding the fuel filler caps to various locations on the spine.
Sanding the CMK resin nose to smoothly mate with the fuse. Just need to describe some lost details / panel lines.
Ok ok,
so here's a little bit of scratching. Fuel filler ports opened up:
And here's the finished 3D model with a ghostly representation of the engine for the idea. I took the measurements of the Revell engine and put it in there:
Hi Rog,
to be brutally honest i don't wash my resin and when i prime its usually a deep dark tamiya grey.
But maybe I'm not the best person to take modeling advice from
Hehehehe!
The delivery time from Shapeways is a few days. Their dutch office is in Eindhoven, so pretty local.
The costs will be around 20 euro's. Depends on the material and level of detail I choose.
Is it cheating? Yes. Hihihihi