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Tiger side walls

The Hachette Tiger partwork provides the upper side walls for the hull in issues 17 and 18, as this photo states. Each hull side wall is provided in 2 parts.They are shown in this photo.

But these parts have a problem. When assembled, they form an exactly straight line along their lower edge.

Tiger side walls

The edge of these walls actually had two slight kinks in it. This photo of an actual Tiger is squeezed to make the kinks more obvious.

There is no simple fix for this, because the side walls have a Zimmerit surface. If you remove part of the wall, you will expose the floor behind it. For the sake of accuracy, it would be best to apply all of the side fenders which will cover up this error.

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