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And in other news, styrene stock prices shot skyward as there is a sudden shortage in SoCal! Film at leben.

Beautifully done, Stik. Love the detail and envy your patience in doing this work.Excellent.

I did not use that much in there... LOL! But thank you. Give a few more days to get it all painted up.

Here is todays progress- detail painting
cockpit


radio compartment


top turret




tail gunner floorboard and armor plate/controls


forward fuselage sidewalls

Nice work on the painting of the interior.

Thanks. It's getting there.

Watchin the beauty good way to reproduce the insulating panels

Some more paint layer could be done Stick, the kakhi and brown on sidewalls colour seems not so omogeneous.

Thank you BSY. Yes I still will be doing some wash & dry brush work inside. The colors on the padding really darken it up in that compartment and it will be hard to see a LOT of the sidewall detail once its all sealed up. It will draw attention to the rest of the stuff in there at the radioman and navigator work stations.

Ok, today I finally had time to take and upload photos once I got my energy back.... so here we go. In the past few days I have been doing bits and pieces of detail painting and today I did my washes using teh Testors stuff. I bought their acrylic stuff and tried it today, but I am not overly impressed with it. It needs to be removed ASAP once applied while still damp or it stains the paint beneath it. Oh well, live and learn... and for some reason I got another wild idea to add the IP wiring to the back of the panel using some very fine wire and super glue... anyways here goes...
the front of the IP- I still need to decide if I am gonna use decals or drybrush the instrements themselves... decision and carrying that out tomorrow...


and the rear of the IP wired up. I still need to paint my work. It will be just slightly visible thru the nose glass so why not?


and now to the cockpit sidewalls after the wash. During the removal of the Testors Acrylic wash, some of the Vallejo acrylics that I had used on the detail work was removed as well. I am not overly impressed by those paints either. Tomorrow I will do paint touch up work to fix that stuff


And now for the cockpit work. Before I get any WTF/WTH feedback about the seat colors take a look at this photo of Flak Bait in the Smithsonian- the seat cushions really are a gawdawful yellow color...


so after getting the detail work and washes done on the flight deck and readio compartment I glued those portions to the bulkhead




and placed into the fuselage halves






thanks for looking...

Boy, that is coming along nicely. Mighty fine, mighty fine.

It's starting to take shape as I envisioned...