Rear end, detailing and sanding.

Here you can see the ship drying after I'd finished applying some details to the rear end.

The engine casings are made from thin strips of styrene plastic (I think you can see the packet in the previous post).

It's cut and fixed into place for the small engines, and bent and fixed for the larger ones to give the curved corners.

The recesses outside the corners I filled with glue.

I then made use of off-cuts from making the panels, and a few more bits of the thin strip to add details to the back plate.

I added a few similar details to some of the other panels, just to give the surface some more interest.

Any little gaps I've been filling with shards of plastic and glue, or - if very small, just glue. It seems the glue is pretty much a mixture of a thinner and something similar to the plastic I'm using (not so hot at chemistry...) - so when it sets, it makes a fairly decent surface which can be sanded back to smooth.

Talking of sanding, that was up next. Sanding and filling and adding details and sanding and filling and... That took quite some time.