Thank You Everyone for the interest and replies, my Thanks to Martin, Rag III, KiwiZac, Des, Ernie ( You can never be late!), Nigel, it really is a great kit, Michael and Bud! The interest and comments make the modelling real fun and keep me going.
This photo shows how I break things down to sub-assemblies and try to do all the similar colours at once: here all the metal parts are undercoated in silver before I attack them with other shades:
Also all the wood parts are undercoated; Then I started assembling the cockpit frames after doing the usual wood effect on them: At this stage they are only dry fitted, but the fit is so good they just stay together! Also I mask the small pins on the struts as I know just a layer of paint will affect the fit;
Even the seat is dryfitted... I think these views are a little out of order, really....
But then I tried fitting everything together to make sure it fitted: Sure enough, there were places I had to remove paint and trim just a bit to get the fuselage sides to fit around the cockpit parts: Best to check first at this stage before committing to glue!
But some progress made...
Regards,
Marc
