Thanks everyone for the positive feedback...I'm not sure it's quite THAT good, but I'm certainly happy with it, and glad you all like it!
The first thing I did today was as a result of yesterday's post. I decided after seeing the pics that the carb fairing was too big, so I trimmed about 1mm off the rear and thinned the whole thing down a bit. I think it looks much better now.
I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to proceed today, but decided to get some paint on the fuselage, rather than wait for the wings to be finished and then paint it all at once. First I attached the wing root stubs, then put some grey on the nose (Model Master Neutral Grey). When that was dry, I did the underside with Misterkit RFC CDL. I love those paints, they spray so easily...I just hope I don't have any problems masking it later.....
There will be more grey to do later, when I add the cover panels to the sides of the engine bay and the bottom of the fuel tank/front cabane strut.
In between the painting I decided to do some work on the engine. I added the exhaust manifolds, did a little detail painting, and made up the air scoop out of an old beer can. I still need to add the internal baffles to that, but they will be done later. I lso cleaned up the kit exhausts - the horizontal part needed shortening slightly and was then rounded off to give a more circular cross-section, the upright will be shortened when it's all together so I don't cut it too short, but it has been flattened out to give more ovoid cross section.
That's it for today, time for a beer. Thanks for looking in.
Ian
