I had a bit of a setback with my 1/72 P-40 that I would like to share. The problem is minor as it deals with the rear landing gear doors and tail wheel area which hardly shows unless you turn the plane upside down.
1) I spent a fair amount of time with putty and sanding to eliminate the seam at the tail wheel area and after painting with Humbrol interior green and allowing to cure for several days, I decided the seam job was fine and decided to install the doors.......well I used the Tamiya extra thin solvent as sparingly as I could and ended up getting it all over the painted area, crazing/wrinkling the paint. I learned, I think, I should have used a thick tube cement or a thick cyanoacrylate to do the job. What do you guys use for attaching such parts?
2) I installed one of the gear doors too close to the tail wheel hole which interferred with it's fit and tried to carefully remove the offending door and ended up breaking it about two thirds the way back. I re-glued it using a tube glue and needed to blend it in with the rear portion and I used Squadron green putty, sanded, and then tried the trick of filling the area needing more putty with the 'liquid paper' correction fluid. I haven't painted yet, but that stuff might be an incredible, inexpensive find for our hobby. It's rather hard to explain, but when re-gluing the door I had to change it's location slightly to clear the tail wheel hole and then blend in the two fragments to have the door appear correct.
This is my second plane and I'm learning much.