Careful with the pin idea -- you might up planing/sanding down to it during the fairing stage! That would lead to an 'aw, shucks' or worse.

Another brain fart: you know how roof trusses are made with steel plates that have barbs formed into them? Is there a similar product on a much smaller scale for modelmakers? I'm trying to think of ways to join the strips on the backside only...

Dean

> I am assembling the entire design on my workbench first so when I glued
> them up; I glued them as a straight stick on the workbench, with no clamp
> directly over the joint.

> I was just thinking of my model building days of when I would use a
> straight pin through the joint to secure everything together. I just have
> to do it in a way that I would never see the hole created by the pin.

> Now that makes me think what about CA, I know the subject has come up on
> the board before, but I can not find anything about how the joint will
> hold up under stress. Then what about how epoxy curing over it.

> CA tends to dry very white, so how noticeable would it be?

> Jason