Cheers KiwiZac
Sorry there had been a bit of a delay, I had intended to push ahead with this but just after the last post we were hit with some really nice weather and I made the most of that. I have now done the interior and closed the fuselage halves, a milestone I enjoy getting to. I removed the detail inside the halves because this is replicated on the resin parts provided. I have on my workbench a pane of glass with various grades of sandpaper stuck to it. I used that to take off the excess resin on the two interior side walls and they then fitted fine (I broke the end off one by mistake but did not bother to repair it as it cannot be seen). Other parts were a bit fiddly but I got around this with my old trick of sticking plasticine on the side of a mug of tea so it is nearly
Iiquid then using it to hold the bits in place. It goes stiff quite quick I made some paper supports for the chair. I have a lot of shrunken pictures of dials made on a photographer, I cut a couple of them out for a couple of the dials. I will put three of the four seatbelts in later and hope I haven't given myself an impossible task for later. On seeing a couple of other builds a copper wire runs from one of the starboard dials towards the stern. I copied this on a whim but wish now I didn't because now the fuselage is closed it gives an optical illusion that the gap between the seat and the side is narrower there. I might mask this later with one of the seatbelts. Internal wires were just drawn on with a pencil and I am glad I did it that way because you can't see them now the halves are closed. All paint used was acrylics, Citadel grey and silver. Tamiya gold mixed with Citadel bronze for the tank. Wood effect was many thin layers of paint mixed with Klear. For the linen I mixed paint from about four or five different pots, my understanding of German linen is it is a bit darker and a little greyer than British and French aircraft but if I am wrong it is a bit late to change this now.
Thanks for looking in, Alan.
