The masking turned out great. You may try to polish the cockpit area with a pointed cotton swab or hitting just the clear areas with an acrylic gloss applied by brush (It works but not the best way to add shine). The other area looks like it is on the inside. 
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Maybe touch up with future floor wax or the like.
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Thanks great idea.
It is inside so I think I’m going to mask it off and make it smoke tinted windows to cover up the ugly areas cheers 
@keavedog, there is no future floor wax in my country. What is it made of? Thanks
Maybe just bite the bullet and take the nose canopy off, the polish and clear coat? Its drastic, but may be worth it if doable.
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It’s a clear acrylic. Maybe look for Pledge Floor Polish
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Was a tempting idea but going the other way now to avoid any large scale operations now. It’s not gonna be perfect but I hope to cover it up a bit
Thanks keavedog noted
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Had to save the nose canopy somehow, so I airbrushed some Tamiya smoke over it. At least it works somehow for now…
Nice work retaping the nose canopy. I’m surprised that it didn’t lift the paint.
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Luckily the paint and coat dried well before that Mobious
The Nakajima 4-prop G8N1 ‚Renzan‘ Rita 18shi ready for take off…not too bad for a 1968 tooling from #Hasegawa… please note this is not a historically accurate rendition, rather an artistic impression 
Cheers
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Noice! Excellent job 
. The metal finish on the nacelles look great. You’ve brought the old '68 release up to date. Cool photos. I really like the contrast with the dark background. Thanks for sharing 
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Thanks for participating in this group build. Cheers and on to the next one
Slated this one for this weekend start date.
Been wanting to build a biplane for awhile. Gonna open it up a take a look see..
Happy modeling
Mobious
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Smoke! What a brilliant idea!
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Your Rita came out great. Amazing work considering the age of the kit. As other said, I really like how you painted the cowlings/props. Nice work!
I have been working on this one for a while. Made the masks for the canopy. There is a very complex interior which took some time. The instrument panel decal was really difficult to get to conform over the panel, though I did not hit it with Tamiya Extra Thin, not worth the risk given how hard it will be to see. Unlike many of the Japanese models such as the B5N with small cockpit openings I have built a lot will be seen of the cockpit areas through even the closed canopy though there are parts build it open or closed. I had a bit of trouble with getting the cockpit parts in place well enough to get the fuselage seams that but that worked out OK. I did have some trouble getting the wing to fit up to the fuselage as there was some interference to work out with the bottom of the cockpit parts and some trimming was needed at a flange at the front of the fuselage. More trouble with this one than any other Hasegawa 1/48 scale kit I have done and I have built a few. Perhaps I am having concentration issues due to medical treatments that are keeping me from thinking critically enough, though thankfully my tremor is back to my normal so there is some good.
Or else I am just snakebit because of the stupid Revell 1/32 P-51D-5!
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Looking good John. I’m sure with your skills you can whip this kit into something awesome.
Looks good John. Not that it matters, but now I know for a fact you are going to cross the finish line before me! 
A three seater, that’s a lot of canopy. It’s a good thing you make your own masks. The wing root seams look good and the interior looks great. 
Thats a nice interior! No option to display it with open canopy?
Yes, and I may do that.
Took longer than I had planned, but I did take some proper photos of this to use as the final entry photos
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