So far, so good. Parts are all nice and well detailed, and fit together well.
The kit provides cast weights for the nose. One is buried in the front engine and the other sits just behind the firewall (visible in pics).
Only a few additions to this kit…some wiring and plumbing for the engines. In the pit, I scratched the belts with tape (kit provides PE, but looks clunky and crappy), detailed the rear of the IP, and made new throttle levers.
I’m skipping the fuel tank (between pit and rear engine), as it won’t be seen.
Gotten quite a ways with this one.
Fuselage buttoned up…fit wasn’t great, but not too bad. Needed some putty in front of the windscreen.
The wings are several parts, and don’t fit all that great. Unless I missed it, there is no part for the landing light. I made one out of a scrap 1/72 250lb bomb…I’ll get a shot of that later.
Have done a little bit of “pre-painting”, while painting another project.
One other modification.
The radiator(???..piece in the front cowling) is molded smooth/flat. Looking at some pics, it should have a “screen-like” appearance. I happened to have a little candy/goodie bag in my drawer. I saved it, from a wedding several years ago, thinking that it might come in handy for something someday! I cut the pieces and glued them down with diluted white glue(Elmers/water).
…and…all the fiddly bits…
Just about ready to get everything into the paint booth…but I ran myself out of black and white paint. Gotta wait for my order to show up.
Gonna give it a few days for the paint and glue to fully cure…then I gotta figure out how to pack it up, so it gets to the other side of the country…in ONE piece!
Being freakin massive, I couldn’t get full body shots in my paint/photo booth.