Seems the body is approaching the final steps, and it's time to do something that I'm the weakest, i.e. the transparent parts in the head and tail lights.
One of the techniques that I learnt in the past is: The most reaslistic part of the glass covering the head lights is the rubber rim for waterproof, some of the modelers would put directly the bare transparent part on the "eye socket", which turns out to be very plastic and toy. Here's what I did to the tail light cover:
I used a thick gundam marker to run around the cover (evenly!) and it's done.
Another technique that handling of head lights is make sure the under side of the cover and the socket are cleaned. It would be fuxked when you found dust INSIDE the head light after you glue it to the socket...
However, if you really prepared to "roll back" the glueing of head light cover, please please remember to use "White Glue" or similar stationery type glue.
The White Glue fits this usage for a few reasons:
1, it's water soluble, just in case anything happen to the transparent parts, wash it.
2, it won't eat the transparent parts. A lot of sad example in the past with excellent builds with foggy windows...:-(
3, it's cheap. Compare to the products from Testor or Modeller, it only costs about US$1.
4, it turns translucent after dried. Still transparency is better than translucency, so pay attention when apply it.
5, it's adhesiveness is mild. Just in case of any accident happened, parts can be taken out without any breaks. Dried glue can be easily wiped out and work all over again.
(17/6/2009)
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