Morning chaps.
Had a bit of a disaster with this. I'm working on
decals and as some of them need to line up across different panels I decided to fit the panels to the frame first.
The seat/tank section is made up of several parts, including a cover that sits in front of the tank. This is fitted by bending out the sides of the cover to pry them over the tank, which is both tricky and precarious. Not wanting to crack the cover (which itself is made of three parts glued together) I didn't want to over bend the sides and risk breakage so tried to slip it over. Then this happened.
I attempted a spot repair but it looked crap so there was nothing else for it.
It's a bit of a pain, however on the plus side it means I can address a couple of seams that I hadn't fully sorted first time around. Knowing what I know now I will glue the cover on before painting, I guess
Tamiya has it as a snap on part in case anyone wanted to remove it for display, I wont be doing this as under the cover is just a fairly boring black box & tank (maybe a fuse box & water tank??).