Prepping front skins

So I'm doen painting the front skins and gluing the greeblies and such onto them. Time to bond the inner and outer skins and the individual panels.

The technique? Clamps. Lots and lots of clamps.

Rear skins OK

Got the inner & outer rear skins mounted today. Wound up drilling little holes in the corners and mounting using the skin mount blocks from Commando 8. Unfortunately can't do the front ones just yet due to breaking off a screw in one of the front mounts. Replacement on the way.

Also you'll notice the maintenance hatch isn't curved enough. Can't figure out how to fix that without popping everything off. All the bits & pieces are glued on with E-6000. Looks like it'll work.

A little more skin paint

So I said before I was going to leave the inner skins unpainted. Well, that's not 100% true; you know those grill kinda things in the front and back of R2 with the blue behidn them? Yeah, I'm gonna paint in the blue. Just a question of masking:

Skirt

So I got an A&A flat-pack skirt. It's basically sheet styrene that's been cut and you glue it together. I wish I'd taken more in-progress photos, but you can see the end result here:

It's pretty light and flimsy, and definitely not load-bearing, but it looks good, and should be great once I put it on and weather it a bit.