John Eaves has published several renderings of the Valdore in his blog, which confirmed my suspicion that the head of this kit is waaayyy too wide.

2/7/07 - I began work on this a few months ago, scrubbing the resin surface with Bon Ami and cleaning up a few of the edges - filing and sanding. This time around, I did some more serious clean up work and filling on the port wing, main body, lower neck, head, and port outboard pod. I also began the task of drilling holes for alignment pins, since the kit has very few.

3/20/09 - Back to it after a long break! I finished drilling the alignment holes in the wings and fitted brass tubing into the holes. I set up wood blocks to support the body and hold the wing in what seemed to be the right position. Other than making the joining surfaces fit as flush as possible, there's no indication of the correct angle to fit them together. So... best guess.

The gluing rig was simply wooden blocks placed under the body and under the wing while the epoxy set. I marked the point on the wing where it rested on the block and marked the same spots on the opposite wing so I could match the location of the block for gluing up that piece.

Prepping the wing joint	Gluing rig to ensure symmetry on the wings	Both wings glued up

3/29/09 - I did some extensive putty and clean up on the underside near where the lower neck joins to the body. once that clean up was done, I attached the head and lower neck using 5 minute epoxy. I also attached the outboard wing pods.

3/31/09 - Attached some of the underside detail pieces and worked on sanding & filing out the wing joint.