Revell Junkers Ju 88A4 - Part VI

One of these less pleasant moments... You are almost done, ready to put on the transparent bits and they don't fit although they did before. Well... actually, I'm pretty sure they didn't really fit at any time. As you perhaps recall, the nose of this kit is split in multiple 'quadruples' that need to be aligned very precisely. As it turns out, it was a task beyond my skills and now this failure came back to haunt me.

Right... so the question was - try to fix the problem on a model that was painted and in an area with multiple transparent parts, prone to scratches and blemishes or leave it and hope nobody would notice? And here we arrive to a very interesting lesson in psychology - nobody, except me and I know that these gaps would nag at me every time I'd look at that kit. Question answered; people are really funny... :)

So, how to perform this 'sensitive operation'? Well, first of all, mask off all areas not involved! Second, be very patient and work with diluted acrylic putty. I'll go through materials I'm using in this project at other time, but let me tell you - Perfect Plastic Putty from Deluxe Materials is really useful! Last, file and polish, very carefully.

Before and after pictures are below. I'm almost there!