A second update.
During the dryfitting I noticed that the right side-pod didn't show a perfect fit.
So we superglue a piece of plasticard ...
... and sand away the excessary material until it fits.
Next the sidepod is sanded until it had the exact same dimensions as the resin bottom. After which it is polished.
The front opening has to be fitting and straith as well.
Finally I dryfit the photo-etch part. Although it doesn't look too bad, I prefer it to be see-through instead of showing a blind wall behind it...
So we take our drill and we start drilling out the side-pod.
The rough work looks like this :
After filing and sanding down the opening, taking care of leaving a small lip to be able to attach the photo-etch part, it looks like this :
And with the photo-etch part in its place you can now see through the cooling fins (maybe it's not very visible in the pictures). I think this is important since there will be details to see behind it.
The same procedure is carried out to the left side. After that, we take a look at the rear. It's clear that the metal side-pods are way to thick and also the left side-pod is a little small, so it doesn't fit either.
So once again we take some pieces of plasticard, to glue to the side-pod as well as to the monocoque :
And after cutting all the pieces to the right size, and sanding them down, I thouroughly clean and degrease the parts. Next I do a new dryfit. This looks pretty well. Enough for today...
At this pictures you can see the pieces of plasticard and also the thinned down rear, being a lot more realistic.
