After 3 weeks the oils were still tacky, and I didn't like them at all, so it's all been stripped off. I'm really not too happy with Uschi's decals in 1:72 so I probably won't be using them again. All they do is show lines which really aren't visible at all in this scale. Adding to that, after scouring the DF over and over again, I'm not even sure that the floats were made of wood - there are a couple of pics which clearly show rivets and chipped paint around the edges...so I will paint them the same grey as the struts and cowling - or maybe not......
On another note, a little more progress has been made on the wings. After an initial primer coat, I decided to fill the small indents for the strut locations and reposition them correctly. I've also separated the ailerons and added pins to remount them. I was going to add the float struts at this stage as the kit supplied items fit into slots under the fuselage which would need to be filled before painting, but then I discovered that both the PE and the white metal ones are way too long, (according to the DF plans) and too wide to fit with the mods I've made to the wings to enable them to be mounted folded. So.... I will make new struts and add pins to fit them - which will mean I will either have to drill the white metal float mounting bars, or make new ones of those too. Since they have a curve in the middle for the torpedo mount I may experiment with drilling them.....
More fun to follow....thanks for looking in!
Ian
