Thanks for the kind comments, lady and gentlemen.
Terri, the instrument panel is from the clear film and the PE part included in the kit.
In the meantime Gnome Lambda arrived from Small Stuff (great customer service, as usual!). Assembling it was yet one more strain to my eyes, I had to resort to a magnifying glass (for the first time in my life!) but I managed to do it!!! Apart from my attempts to put it together, with every bit I added to it my admiration and awe to the manufacturer of this little gem grew on. So, here it is
And I also worked on the fuselage - added the tailplane, the firewall and the fuselage bottom at the exhaust zone. All the joints were filled, sanded and polished. I have sprayed a dark grey paint to check the quality of these works, you can still see it at some places.
Two funny spurious stich lines under the tailplane removed (it seems that guys at MAC took the tailplane struts at the side views as the stich lines!), as was the too deep imitation of the inspection panel. The panel will be reinstated using the kit PE fret.
The correctly located recessed lines along the stiching will serve me as a lead to attach the PE stich pattern from Part. The fuselage also got the wire pins to be used to reinforce the lower wings joints which are only by the wing spars leaving gaps between the wing and the fuselage. They will indeed require some extra strength.
