Hi all
Mick - thanks. Still battles to be fought
John - cheers. I do use glue, honest! Steve will certainly be my go to guy for Archer advice
I have spent the day messing around. First off I looked at the way the rotors were mounted. Thanks to Peter and Richard I realised that there was a way to have the rotor removable. I thought that would be useful for painting as well as future storage. In 33 part 50A is a poorly moulded plastic pin. For strength I replaced it with a brass tube - still to be shortened. I'll epoxy it to the rotor mount and its a nice snug fit into the base.
The engine has a blanking plate in it which stops you seeing inside. Part 49A.
Revell want a section cut out to allow space for the rotor base/mount to fit.
Seemed daft to me so I made a new blanking piece to fit slightly further forward so now it doesn't foul the rotor base.
There is a circular intake on each side at the front of the engine. Mostly all you can see is a dark hole.
This is
Revell's instruction for altering and fitting them
Lord alone knows what that is all about! I shall simply mount the intakes onto the blanking piece, slap on some paint and hey-ho its done. It should look the part at least. I shall take a razor saw to those horn like bits that the intakes were meant to fix to as the get in the way of my blanking plate.
Just messing around
Jim