Thank you everyone!
I must say this is quite a tiny little bird in this scale... which makes me wonder why my progress is so slow... oh well! There has been some progress this weekend, which is nice.
Firstly, I had a crack at painting the propeller. It's no thing of beauty but by Jove it will do!
I painted up some gaspatch guns - these things are beautifully done, though I did my best to hash up the paint job...!
Thankfully they are a good fit for the kit ammunition chutes / ammo box piece.
I also got the fuselage together; the fit was quite nice with no filler being needed on the seams (in fact, from dry fitting, there should be no need for any filler at all on the kit. Phenomenal!). You can see where I did have to fill those errant panel lines on the fuselage.
I added the cowling ring from foil:
The underside of the fuselage is bare, so I added the chin panel and some stitching.
Lastly, one of my favourite steps - priming. I did my best to 'de-red' this little beastie...!
So far, I have been quite impressed by the level of engineering and ease of build of this kit.
Now, to decide on a colour scheme... (and before anyone suggests it, I won't be doing Richthofen's all red machine, haha!
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Cheers and thanks for looking!
BC
