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One Super Hornet

Construction
Construction of the model was pretty straightforward save for a couple of things. I will concentrate on those instead of boring you with the common assembly information.

The first problem was the nose cone assembly and where it joined the main fuselage. Significant filing and sanding was required to get the nose cone to set square on the main fuselage and when it did there was still a lip that had to be filed down, filled and sanded to get it within standards to paint. Even so, I had to remove the first coat of paint to rework it to get it right.

Next was the joint just forward of the canopy. This is the joint where the upper and lower fuselages meet in a three-way joint-all kinds of problems with this bad boy. It took a ton of filling and sanding to get the joint even remotely presentable and even then it wasn't that great.

The vertical stabilizers were the next major problem. The joint where the stabilizers attach to the fuselage was nothing more than a shallow grove in which the stabilizer was to sit. Just by looking at the joint I knew it wasn't going to work. If I ever got the glue to hold it would only be a matter of time before the stabilizers were snapped off because of the weak joint. To remedy the problem, I drilled holes in both the stabilizer and fuselage in which I glued a brass rod to serve as support for the stabilizer. Overall, the joint turned out very well and is much stronger than if I had just glued the stabilizers to the fuselage