I know this topic may get some laughs from those of you do custom work, but there just may be someone here that will benefit.
This poor Avenger had a play date with my five year old. Result: tail wing broken off. My eight year old tried to fix it. Result: he broke the other wing off so it wasn't out of balance
Notice the broken tiny pieces of plastic that held the wings in place (nice job 21st Century)!
Here is how I fixed it.
1:Remove all fuselage screws (my plane lacked the plugs)
2:Remove canopy (just to be safe)
3:Seperate fuselage just in front of rear landing gear (you only need to get it about 1/2 inch apart and the entire tail section will come off the main fuselage)
Note: In steps 1 through 3 I incountered no areas that had been glued together (use caution your plane may have been glued in these areas) !!!!!
4:Now that you have the tail section off make sure you take out the two screws holding the tail together before going to step 5
5:Use a flat blade screw driver to seperate the tail section. Go through the landing gear area not from the outside! Starting from the forward most top of fuselage and working your way back and up the horizontal tail wing. (this area was glued on my plane) Go slow! Mine came apart perfectly.
6:Line up your wing with the slots and mark for drilling.
7:Drill holes (check that your screws will go in without cracking the plastic)
8:Attach wing then drill a third hole (and insert screw) to catch the upper portion of the wing. Now your wing is being supported by both the top and bottom halves, and is very strong!
Repeat step 8 for other wing.
Re-assemble.
DONE
Hope someone finds this useful
B-SNAKES
I would, but it's just too cool to see Avengers, Me 109s, Stukas, P-51s, etc flying all around the house. I never had cool airplanes when I was a kid, so I guess my boys will look back some day and remember how much fun they had with Dad's airplanes