Things are progressing, although not as well as I'd have hoped. I encountered my usual issues with Roden decals when I added the first of the stripes at the rear of the fuselage and it disintegrated. I ended up painting all four stripes instead. The 'W' and 'Schweinhund' decals also disintegrated to a lesser degree so I was able to patch them with white paint. Unfortunately, despite several applications of gloss coats, all decals have silvered a bit at points around their edges.
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The cabane struts are wound with masking tape and painted and weathered with various Tamiya colours. There are no locating guides to obtain the correct angles for these struts, so I measured the distances between the mounting holes in the top wing and set the struts accordingly. Hopefully, they'll be close to correct but I'm not holding my breath. I also cut some pressed strengthening ribs into the front face of the fuel tank.
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The engine fit perfectly into the fuselage, but I'm not even going to try to install the covers as I can tell that my sparkplug wiring would interfere with them. I like to see the engine anyways and have always left them exposed in my previous builds.
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The seatbelts are from HGW and I had to cheat a bit with them as by the time they arrived in the mail, the fuselage was already buttoned up. I still need to weather and seal them.
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In this last image, I've just shown the tailplane press fit in place. I still need to do some further detail work there before I finalize it. Next step is to figure out the rigging mounting points and install all of the eyelets.
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Thanks for looking.
Cheeers,
Chris
P.S. This thing is aptly named! It's definitely a schweinhund to me!