PrzemoL and Alexis, thank you both for your encouragement. I have studied and learnt so much from your builds.
Since my last post I completed the main painting including using Faf?s wonderful masks. Faf made a good point ?it's easy to go a bit overboard when you spray white on dark colours like PC10. The dark background makes the white look "dirty" and tempts you to make another pass and another until you've put it on a little too much.?
Sage advice a little too late for me. I was pretty happy with the look overall but may have overdone the weathering of the bottom wing, but hey, maybe it was a very muddy airfield?
Finally finished the rigging around the cabane struts. I found this far more challenging than anything I?d done before. I was very happy at this point prior to discovering a fairly glaring mistake I?d made when adding the top wing. The rest of the rigging is coming along nicely but still thinking of how to fix my error.