<u>Step 8</u>: (continued)

Use your microballoons mixture to start filling in areas with sharp, compound curves; narrow, hard to get to areas; and to radius those corners.

More pictures ofme filling in the sharp angles around the tail section of my P-39:

The first picture shows what it looks like after I used the flux brush to gently push the excess material back into the radius, the brushed smooth any remaining residue. I repeatedly run the popsicle stick over this area to ensure the entire corner is completely filled-in smoothly, while occasionally cleaning off the excess material that builds up on the stick, before it accumulates enough to deposit material in a new "trail" outside of the area I want it. Notice that the side of the fuse (bottom of the pic) is cleaned up, but the T.E. of the fuse (rudder post area) still needs to be cleaned up, too.

The second picture shows both areas cleaned up; and now this one area of this mold half is complete. However, there is still a lot left tofinish up. . .