Hello All,
Finished this guy except I'm not sure what extra cables go on the Lewis...but it's done for all intents and purposes.
My first WNW and it won't be my last. These things make anyone look amazing. I painted it up rather scruffily (a word?) because I wanted to depict it after a long service life...maybe flying along side some C-IIa or at least with brothers having a synchronized forward firing gun. As I usually build 1/72nd and this is my first 32nd plane in a loooong time (first ever WWI in this scale), I'm amazed, too, how hard they are to photograph! So don't laugh.
I posed it with the windows open...all of them...since it makes things easier to see inside. This is the only thing that was difficult in the kit. The windows don't fit and while the forward openings have space for one set of hinges and the rear windows have spaces for two hinges, the clear parts are all molded with two hinges per window. Not sure why. In any event, I glued them on open which isn't far fetched. I sure couldn't get them in easily since I waited until the end to install them.
All in all a lovely time, fast build and again, WNW could make my cat look like he can build. Just breathtaking engineering. When you consider the skill, time and plastic that goes into these, they are worth every penny.
Now...where to put it?
Thanks for looking and on to the Snipe.
Dan