SIAI-Marchetti SF-260M

Bart Goesaert
Engraved some detail in the sides. Mated the hull sides, the wings and the tail. When mating the hull to the main wings, there was a little difference in width. So i glued the front and back first, added a spacer in the middle before gluing those, to minimise the gaps... seem to have worked rather fine.

Bart Goesaert
added some pictures about how I reinforce some parts in a resin (or other) kit that don't have a lot of body to glue.

Bart Goesaert
Nosepiece fitted and sanded... front gear door is missing from the kit, wrote several mails to the company, but no answer up to now, so more scratchbuild ahead.

Nathan Dempsey
Interesting subject Bart. I know this one will be a challenge. All the Planet kits are, but they do have unique kits...

Bart Goesaert
Little by little... hardest thing is arriving, preparing the vac-formed cockpit. For such a popular aircraft, there are very few descent walkarounds of this one... all the links from here are dead, and most pictures are from outside...

Bart Goesaert
That's what I tried, but only instrument panel foto's. Was looking for canopy rails and other details. Found them...[img1].html
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Bart Goesaert
Some progress at the bathtub section... Small scratches in a vacform canopy, can these be polished out?

Bart Goesaert
Thx

Nathan Dempsey
I just did that on my Vampire NF.10, it worked like a charm.

Bart Goesaert
I hope it works, will try to obtain this product, anybody has a clue as where to buy it in Belgium? Did some polishing yesterday had to remove some CA-marks unfortunately, and when made wet it looks good, also added some details...

Bart Goesaert
thx