[Didymus]

A minor miracle:

Yesterday, a support strut broke off my Speedster frame while I was working on the cockpit. The strut is attached only by a couple of .010" rods inserted into a hole and notch in the frame. I've never had much luck repairing broken styrene rods, even with epoxy, so it looked like I'd have to re-create the entire strut assembly with brass. That would have involved a lot of time - and soldering.

So I took a wild swing. I just stuck the strut onto the frame, flooding the scraped joints with some of my newly acquired Tamiya Extra Thin Cement. It seemed like mission impossible, but I let it cure overnight anyway.

This morning I expected to find a couple of weak, soft joints, but I was amazed to find that the joints are solid!

Tamiya Extra Thin to the rescue. Thanks, Klutz. This is great stuff!

BTW, the Fujimi Speedster is not the easiest model I've ever built. The instructions aren't very clear about some of the attachment points. The parts are abundant and nicely made except for one small detail - many of them don't line up quite right. Just about everything has to be carefully fitted and trimmed before final gluing.