Thank you Alexis and Rick!
It is true , We do love our shoes !
Guy, we no longer need to hide behind the sofa and can crawl forward again!
Fuselage detailsAfter red painting I could add the remaining details to the fuselage.
The kit contains a blast protector a PE, but it is much to big and do not fit. Here tinned.
After modification I blacked it the chemical way and mounted it. For the hole in the cowling I created a maintenance cover. I forgot to mention: the hole on the other side was closed prior painting with some polystyrene.
The camera hole on lower surface is closed now. I forgot to paint the lid.
Two little PE parts form the step to enter the cockpit.
The exhaust was painted with Alclad Steel, Gunze H453 Rust Red and Alclad Exhaust Manifold. In real it looks much more metallic!
The exhaust was mounted.
On the tail I added my wooden skid. On top of that is a travel limiter, provided by the kit as PE. I added a little "rubber bumper".
A little instrument ...
... was added in front of the pilot. The leather strip was repainted. Oh yes, I need to clean some filing!
The gunners ring is also mounted. It was hard to get in place in the right position. The front strut was a closed triangle, but then the ring is too high. It needs to be shortened very much on top, then it fits (two independent struts). This is also correct for early CL.II, the later ones uses a X-strut.
And the final impression of the actual state. The fuselage is finished so far, but some paint fixes of the grey green are needed.
Regarding the red: I painted the metal parts with aluminum before, so now it is darker on the metal parts than on the "wood" parts.
This is a huge step forward! The number of remaining parts is going down dramatically.
Cheers,
Frank
