thank you all, gents!
really, I'm so bored about this project that I pick up from the stash something so bad and ugly to try to rejoin the WWI modeling area...

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nigel, the wing struts are pretty sturdy, just you'll have to test fit those, eventually enlarging a little bit the holes in the wings... using the flex-i-file glue I literally "solved" any occurence....

xan, my god! that picture made me mad for a while!
after some deep breathing, now I suppose and tell to myself that it's just a repainting of the black crosses on the second machine, being the first one the number 213/17...