I've decided to model a Dreamliner in Air New Zealand colours, which will need some work as the ANZ Dreamliner's are the -9 version.
So a little surgery will be done to a Zvezda 787-8.
First some careful cuts, to remove a 5 window section of rear fuselage:
The removed sections were used as masters for resin copies:
More careful cuts were made, and the resin extensions spliced in, more resin was carefully sloshed around inside the fuselage to reinforce the joins.
After joining the fuslage halves, the fusleage was given a through fill & sand, before spraying with Alclad grey primer & Micro filler:
After tidying up a couple of window and some spots that need a little more filling and sanding, I can proceed as normal for the rest of the kit.
I'm debating as to whether I should rescribe the panel lines or just worry about the doors and hatches that were lost in the clean up process as the 787 seems to be a very smooth bird.