Intake assembly
This is very neat and fit is excellent. The main wing should just clip around the intakes and we’ll look at that in the very next part, so watch out for how that goes.
Nose weight
Airfix recommends 20g of weight. I’ve no idea when it comes to measuring these things and just stuff Blu-Tac putty and air rifle pellets in the area immediately behind the cockpit tub, as suggested, and feel what’s right. There will also be a small space in the nose cone and I’ll make sure a little weight goes in there too, just to be on the safe side.
Be sure to drill out the location holes for the gun cartridge chutes on each side of the fuselage and add the parts, along with anything else at this stage and then it’s time to close up. I thought when I did the Here Now in-box review video that the chutes had pre-drilled openings, that’s not the case and they can easily be drilled out with a hand-held pin vice drill (which I’ll do later on).
I used my preferred Tamiya Extra Thin Quick Drying Cement and taped the fuselage joins and I’ll leave this now for a couple of days to harden thoroughly.
I’ve learned from past experience that it’s best to leave the model for at least 2 days for the glue and joints to harden properly. If not, there’s a high risk that even though the join looks good, when you come to apply the silver paint (to the undersides in this case) we’re likely to get ‘ghost seam lines’ (See your SMN Techniques Bank for how to get rid of these).
