Revell 1/32 H145M LUH KSK

[Jim R]

Hi Pete

so what I should have done id add some plastic to the fuselage halves to make it wider, rather than making the interior narrower.

I'll definitely bear that in mind. Fore warned is fore armed :smiling2:

Hi Richard
I appreciate your thoughts on the paints. What you say makes a lot of sense.

Jim

[Jim R]

Hi all
Been doing a lot of dry fitting as Richard advised and I think I have sussed out where the fit problem may be. The windows fit into rebates in the fuselage halves and then the inner walls fit inside and press up against the window edges. Now the windows have to fit completely flush into their rebates - they don't!! In turn this stops the fuselage halves meeting. Easy to sort but the windows appeared to fit fine. A bit of sanding and the windows now seem to fit as they should. We will see. If you heard terrible language coming from Shropshire over the next few days you will know I was wrong!! :confounded:

I have put on the many decals on the inner walls. They were thick and had a lot of carrier film sticking out around the edges. I trimmed the film off very close.Two sides and the roof although the roof only had a few.



Jim

[stillp]

Jim, I had that trouble as well, but even after making the windows fit well into their recesses, I still had to remove quite a lot from the "shoulders" of the inner cabin.
Does your windscreen fit OK?
Pete

[Jim R]

Hi Pete
Thought I might have sorted it but never mind!
Don't know about the windscreen but if the rest is anything to go by it won't fit.
Jim

[scottie3158]

Jim,
Sorry to hear about the troubles you are having with the fit, but I am sure you will get it sorted if the work so far is anything to go by.

[papa 695]

Sorry, just seen this one Jim. Great work so far, I’ll tag along from now on.

[rtfoe]

Hi Jim, I seem to have forgotten that this is a Revell kit and surprised they have detail for the inside unless it's a kit from Revell Germany which has better molding but can be testy when fitting too.

Be prepared to remove any interior material that may block fitting. Better the stuff that's unseen rather than the outer shell. Again I stress that you take your time before gluing.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Hi all
So we have an interior fitted to a floor ....


.... and interior walls and a roof.....


....and two fuselage halves with front door interior frames....


After two hours of thinking, cursing and dry fitting I have come to the conclusion that these don't fit. I have had it taped together as best I can but as fast as I get one section together another bit pops loose! I can't quite figure out why it doesn't fit. I'll come back to it tomorrow 'cause I'm fed up today :confounded: I am also worried that too much handling will break something.
Two possibilities. I think it may be better to change the sequence of putting this together. Revell want the inner walls and roof fitted to the floor and then the two sides of the fuselage fitted around that. It may be better to fit the inner walls to the fuselage halves and then fit the floor and inner roof to one half and then close it up with the other half ???
Another possibility is to consider Richard's idea.

Be prepared to remove any interior material that may block fitting. Better the stuff that's unseen rather than the outer shell.

Yours fed up from Shropshire
Jim

[JR]

As a rabble member I feel it's my duty to lower the tone immediately and say it will be a pleasure to watch you erect your big chopper.

Excuse me Jim.

Andy lock your doors Matron has just shot passed my window riding her bike heading in your direction, has a giant bar of soap in her basket. :smiling3:

[JR]

Jim. So i'm not the only one to battle with kits, I can understand it when I buy Eastern European kits bit seeing that even REVELL mistakes.
Looking at what you have achieved it looks good, art least you don't plaster every thing in glue:smiling3:

[scottie3158]

Jim,
I'm sure you will overcome and lick this into shape mate.

[Guest]

Is it an option to remove some of the thickness of the interior side panels?

[SimonT]

Well, it looks good even if it doesn't fit together

Good luck fettling the various panels

[rtfoe]

Hi Jim, sorry to here of your situation. It is challenging but when overcome there is satisfaction when solved.

This could be the same problem as fitting resin cockpits into plastic kit frames where there's a lot of fettling and sanding to fit. The positive thing is that the interior are shells and not solid so you can work on that and not the hull. I hope the designers have taken in account the thickness of the plastic on the hull. Blu-tac and tape the parts to see where they won't fit when mating.

Have you found where the parts don't fit or is hindering the assembly? There ought to be some crazing of the part. If only we had that film which dentists put between your teeth and ask you to bite which leaves an impression for them to grind away for a better fit.

Cheers,
Richard

[stillp]

Put some carbon paper between the inner and outer. Have you tried the canopy yet, with the outer fuselage taped together? You might find as I did that it's better to widen the fuselage rather than narrow the interior.
Pete