With the pulley ports hollowed out, I filled in the undersides and added the pulleys, brackets and cable from various sizes of plastic rod.
![](http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l474/ChrisJohnson56/Wings-02Apr12-006.jpg)
I had a devil of a time getting these pieces to fit in the pulley ports and this is at 1/32 scale. Bud and Rob, I have a much better appreciation of your abilities when you're doing it in 1/48 scale. If I see someone doing it in 1/72 scale, I'm going to take up hooking rugs!
![Tongue :P](https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
![](http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l474/ChrisJohnson56/Wings-02Apr12-013.jpg)
With the pulley ports detailed, it was time to shoot the underside colour and when it was dry, I sealed it with Testor's Dullcote. I then masked it off to lay out the demarcation line between it and the topside colour.
![](http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l474/ChrisJohnson56/Wings-08Apr12-030.jpg)
I then shot the topside colour and peeled off the masking tape.
It came away perfectly, without any paint lifting at all. This is an important point as you'll see. I sealed everything again with Testor's Glosscoat, added the decals, sealed them with several coats of Dullcote, and ended up with this.
![](http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l474/ChrisJohnson56/Wings-06Apr12-023.jpg)
So far so good. I've accomplished two of three goals in this build. And then the model started going into a spin. Moving on to trying my hand at pastel rib shading as Bud has done so successfully in his builds, I started to lay out the mini-ribs and spars on the underside of the wings. I wanted to adjust some of the tape and when doing so, I encountered a disaster with areas of paint and sealer lifting right down to the plastic. I gently pulled up all of the tape at this point as it was pretty evident that some repair work was required, and here's what I ended up with.
![](http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l474/ChrisJohnson56/Wings-08Apr12-027.jpg)
Arrggghhh! Remember when I wrote above that I masked and pulled off the tape with no paint lifting whatsoever? Now I run into this issue!
Stay tuned as my S.E.5a spins out of control . . .
![Tongue :P](https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
Cheers,
Chris