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Ok, time for an update. Thanks for comments and tips, very much appreciated. Its good to post updates and get feedback.


I finally plucked up the courage and glued the canopy in place. I used "Formula 560" which says on the bottle"The World's Best Canopy Glue" so it must be true  ;). I picked it up in hobby shop in town as an implulse buy as I knew I had a canopy to glue in the near future. It seemed to do the job well enough although I reckon most PVA glues would have done the job.


With the canopy in place I did some final sanding and filling and then applied the "Humbrol Maskol". Now it was time for paint.


Here are some pictures of the painted Apache.




Was relatively happy with the results, although I did notice a few bits that could have been filled and sanded a bit better. Will work on them later and see if I get fix it without too much work.


Now that I had some paint on I really wanted to find out if the masking job had worked.


Here are the images.




Disappointed and happy enough at the same time  :) ???


The "Maskol" seemed to work really well. For my first attempt i was fairly happy. A few bits that i will have to touch up but that is not an issue. I have two problems!! The first one is the scratch's I made in the lower front windscreen by not looking closely enough at where i was cutting to remove the "Maskol " and the second is all the dust that is now inside the cockpit. When filing and sanding the front of the nose I was blowing away the dust particles, obviously straight inside the cockpit!!! I have tried blowing air from all angles to dislodge them, but no luck. I have no wish to remove the canopy to rectify this but I have learned a valuable if somewhat painful lesson. Another way to look at it - "that pilot and gunner are just really messy guys, hate to think what their cars or houses are like if thats how they keep their aircraft!"


That's it for now, would appreciate any comments regarding the scratches and the dust.


Thanks


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