What would you do?

I was tackling the control panel yesterday.

I had left it on the sprue making sure it was easier to add the decal.

How to glue the control panel inside now that I had already glued most of the clear parts?

I had to figure a way out to get it inside.

I came up with this brilliant idea!

How to hold it in place for the glue to set up? Blue Tack on a stick.

Piece of cake…

11 thoughts on “What would you do?

  1. mike w.'s avatar mike w. June 29, 2021 / 8:29 am

    Well done!

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    • Pierre Lagacé's avatar Pierre Lagacé June 29, 2021 / 8:05 am

      Thanks Mike.

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  2. atcDave's avatar atcDave June 29, 2021 / 9:25 am

    Oh clever! I was thinking tear it apart and reglue, your solution is much better.

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    • Pierre Lagacé's avatar Pierre Lagacé June 29, 2021 / 10:57 am

      I had so much trouble glueing these parts I wasn’t going to tear them apart. The other brilliant idea was to skip that step.

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      • atcDave's avatar atcDave June 29, 2021 / 1:44 pm

        Yeah there’s times when I just skip, or even remove interior parts. When I did the Accurate Miniatures B-25, I posted photos of the beautiful interior; but dirty little secret, getting the fuselage halves together was difficult so I stripped out most of that interior. It was all hidden anyway and the fit was pretty problematic.
        But on the He 111 that instrument panel is pretty visible! So excellent solution.

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  3. Pierre Lagacé's avatar Pierre Lagacé June 29, 2021 / 2:00 pm

    We all have those dirty little secrets as modelers.

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  4. Allen's avatar a gray June 29, 2021 / 8:08 pm

    Isn’t it nice to have steady hands?

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    • Pierre Lagacé's avatar Pierre Lagacé June 29, 2021 / 7:27 pm

      I should have been a surgeon.

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    • Pierre Lagacé's avatar Pierre Lagacé June 29, 2021 / 7:28 pm

      Now… How to tackle masking the canopy and all the windows?

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