| shaping a fuselage and taming the joint line!
Hello all!
It's so nice to finally get a break from Fatherhood and post something! I'm now officially staying at home to watch my Son, left my IT career and have not looked backed, not even once! I have a few more planes finished and I'm really starting to see my problems well in advance. This leads me to my reason for posting: I have three pics of my current project-fw190 blah blah blah..... and this is where I've stopped. I'm not sure how to proceed with this seam. According to the aircraft pics I've studied, all of the fuselages are seamless and very round. Well, I've been very careful not to start sanding this yet due to the flatting effect this has cased in the past in the areas around the seems and removing all this kits wonderful detail! Also, maybe its my eyes but these seams always confuse me because even though they are seams, they mate at places BUT give the illusion that the fuselage has a large joint. If I start sanding after I've applied a small amount of putty, the roundness gets removed, I start to shape and then as I mentioned earlier the detail is removed. How do I do about doing this step in removing the seam AND retaining the shape? Is there a way to correctly sand a round area? Thanks so much guys for all of the support! Its great to be back and got some great new pics of the little one to post once cropped from my camera. Jeff |