Hi Przemo! Thank You for the kind comments! Yes, it took a bit of effort, but it does look a bit closer to the original. I was considering adding the row of rivets around the join in the two metal sections, and had a look through all the photos I could find (Ray Rimmel says this is the way to go) and then it struck me that the prototypes and early examples had very prominent rivets, but the later production machines had much less visible rivets, sometimes none at all. This may be due to improved production techniques and skill. Then it struck me that if we were sure a cowling was overpainted, the rivets were just about invisible ... Do your own check and you may see what I mean... So this black cowling should have very little of the rivetting visible. It makes some sense, as a roughening up with sandpaper and then a coat of paint will hide a lot... This puts another nail in the coffin of the Voss yellow cowling... ( Did I say that?? I could start WW3...) as the rivets are quite prominent in his "face" cowling...
Hi Rick! My problems with Fake-Bucket are getting worse... I don't have back-ups for this thread or any other posts I have made on this site... So when the photos go down, that's it! (BTW, what they want for a years subscription would keep a family in Africa in food for a month...) so I'm pretty down about it... I only saved modelling photos, but that's bad enough... But thank You for keeping in touch and the kind words...
I haven't done much, just checked the fit of the tail-plane and scraped away the underside where it lies on the fuselage to make it fit better, seen in the photo. Also the separation line between the elevator and the tail-plane at the balance part is missing - here I'm busy scribing (needs to be neatened up!) the lower one, the upper one shows where it's missing! I also need to sand down those connecting blocks on the underside of the undercarriage wing - they are much too thick!
Regards, Marc
