I should re-title this "Still Plodding Along Too" per Dal's thread, been a bear of a couple of weeks with very little time for my favorite past time!
I've completed the wings with painting of the upper, Lozenge and Tapes on the lower and empennage components, and the fuselage is closed up and has a base wood tone coat. The round access panels and cooling louvres are opened up, future and hairspray applied where necessary and next comes the black base coat followed by some chipping.
The Lozenge will either be covered in Microsculpt or oversprayed with a light buff or grey wash before "after-shading" with pastels and pigments. That technique will be my first attempt at other then Pre-Shading.
Once the paint and final coats are done I'll be removing the masks and adding the final few bits of plumbing etc to the engine compartment and cockpit before assembly of the various components.
As always I value any and all feedback; this one has had so many interuptions it takes me an hour or more to get going every time I sit down at the bench.........lots of potential to miss something obvious or forget "the plan"!!
Here's a bunch of photos of the progress to date............. (the square piece in the first photo is a test piece for the Microsculpt Decal top coat)
And finally a shot of the newest tool in my inventory, RB Production's Scribe-R which I used to open up the cooling louvres and touch up the panel lines. Best scribing tool I've ever used (and I have at least a half dozen types that don't work!) I recieved it as a B-Day gift from a Nephew who does WWII Aircraft, and, it's in a word, excellent.
I'll post a few photos once the lozenge has it's final cover/toning down; in the interim I'm open to any and all comments to keep me going in a straight line.
Cheers,
Lance
