Exhausts are in place. Not easy as they're housed between the radiator pipe, cabane mast and engine cowling offset. I switched a part of the pic to greyscale and found out the underside lozenge colors are wrong. The purple is the darkest color when it should be the blue, then green. I'm working on new versions in my image program using preserved fabric sample pix.
The D-III has been rigged, and has had its landing gear added, which still requires a bit of weathering.
Here's a shot of the table with tools and spareparts.
I made a dry fit trial on dispatching everything on the dio. Finally it looks a little busy but I eventually like it.
Then Marwitz's D-IIIa and it's spareparts have been glued onto the scenery:
I've made elastic schock absorbers from sewing thread glued with CA:
Then the area is weathered with an earth enamel wash:
Some views of the completed D-III before it joins the diorama:
I still have to finish the blue D-IIIa. I've started the rigging, but when that is done it will only lack a landing gear and prop.
