The last floatplane I did was a 1/48 Rufe from Hase about 15 years ago, a very nice kit. I am not a big fan of floatplanes as they tend to be hard to get everything lined up and sturdy enough, older modellers will remember the Airfix™©® Arado 196 in 1/72 with not so good nostalgia. This project is certainly a degree harder with the need to do all the alignment myself. I am using small pins made from a hypodermic needle to do this along with a Lego™ box to help with alignment. The great adventure of putting this all together starts today now that I have the pins in. The front strut can be left on and mated to the wing but the rear strut must be cut off, pinned then reattached at a 45 odd degree angle to meet the fuselage.

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