Thanks to one and all for dropping by and posting your comments. You guys are the best!
I finally managed to finish the wings, thanks to the replacement set of decals Rowan so graciously sent me. You may or may not remember earlier on where I mentioned that when I fouled up the original Pheon number '12' decal, I also pulled off one of the T.S.F decals from the WnW set. Rather than ordering a replacement sheet, I elected to make my own on the computer. I wasn't able to match the font exactly with the ones I have on my computer, but 'Times New Roman' is close enough for me. I printed them out on clear decal paper on my inkjet computer and after letting them fully dry overnight, I coated them with Microscale's 'Liquid Decal Film', and added them to the top wing.
After satin coating the wings and tailplane, I post-shaded them with Mig Productions 'Old Rust' pigment. I painted the rudder rather than using the decals provided and elected not to post shade it. With the post-shading completed, I treated everything to a couple of glazes of Burnt Umber oil paint to give them a grungy, mottled, well worn appearance.
Next step was to add all of the remaining small parts to the fuselage. In Step #6, WnW instructs the modeller to drill a 0.5 mm hole in part #F4 to receive the pilot's Gun Sight (#P3). The placement of this hole is rather vague and I recommend that you dry fit #A35 (Radiator Header Tank and Water Pipe) before drilling to prevent fouling the sight. If the hole isn't far enough to the right, placement of the sight will be either completely obstructed by #A35, or canted to the right, rather than perpendicular.
At this point, just for fun, I dry fit the various components to the fuselage and as you can see below, she's going to be a good sized model.
Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Chris
