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I didn’t think the spacing on the stacks looked right so I plugged the two holes on the left with acc glue and baking soda and sanded them smooth. I took some double faced tape and two pieces of 1”x10” since these are the width of the castings and moved them on the tape until the width from the end and the two spark arrestors was the same. I then marked the centers and redrilled the two holes. The metal post that the spark arrestors are on are to resemble the exhausts but are not wide enough. I glued a HO 2” x 4” on either side of each and rounded them out with Mr Surfacer 500. This filled the seams between the metal post and plastic. Hopefully the photos explain this better. I won’t glue these on until I completely Detail the carbody as they’d get damaged during handling.
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