Hi again... I've been watching quietly for a while, but thanks for the kind suggestions on the metal cowlings. I found a profile of a Pup called "Bobs" and made masks for that... then I realised it was a RNAS version with a different engine and in the end I wen't back to my original choice even though it has battleship grey cowlings rather than turned metal.
Some progress lately... I painted the PC10 using Mr Paints version. It's very thin and very brown until you've built up quite a few layers. This means that it turned out quite dark before I was happy with the colour... I'll see if I can lighten it with some oil paints later. I haven't developed a 'way' of doing ribs yet. This time I ended up masking them and then spraying thin Tamiya X19 Smoke on either side.
Obviously the smoke approach tends to show up a lot more on a lighter surface and maybe I went a little overboard on the undersides?! If you think you see a big blob on the upperwing, then you do but it's my camera having a flaw.
Masks were cut for the roundels and the SO insignia, nothing too difficult.
The roundels were then masked again to highlight the ribs using Tamiya Smoke again... really carefully this time to achieve just a subtle effect.
A question... WNW say that the under carriage should be black and then the colour profile shows them to be PC10. Does anyone have an idea about which is correct?
Take care! /Fredrik