Fiat Cr42 Build Sequence
By Stephen Tontoni
Future windscreen 5 min
Wings … drill rigging holes 10 min
Shoot black (interior stuff, wheels, engine, inside wheel wells, bombs, propeller, exhausts, spinner) 15 min
Shoot light gray interior parts (remember sides of fuselage, interior cowls, wheel struts) 15 min
PE seat harness 10 min
Shoot silver (interior parts, propeller, mask/shoot wheel hubs) 15 min
Detail paint interior, assemble 30 min
Dull coat interior 15 min
Close up fuselage 15 min
Attach cowl over nose 10 min
Attach lower wings, stabilizers 30 min
Attach lower wing fairings 15 min
Assemble engine 30 min
Assemble cowl etc 30 min
Attach struts to upper wing ... dry-align … tape? 45 min
Attach landing gear 30 min
Fill seams, 20 min
Sand seams 45 min
Shoot primer 15 min
Shoot sand windshield cowl 15 min
Attach windscreen (mask) 30 min
Fair in windscreen, mask 30 min
Shoot white spinner (half), fuselage band) 15 min
Mask, shoot sand 15 min
Smoke rings 45 min
Mask; shoot underside gray 45 min
Unmask 15 min
Scotch-brite 30 min
Duracryl 15 min
Decaling 60 min (broken up over extended sessions)
Dull-coat 15 min
Attach upper wings 45 min
Dull-coat strut attachments etc 15 min
Rig 30 min
Touch up Dull-coat 15 min