I also played around with the two bombs, giving them a mottled effect with an Uschi splatter mask. They'll get some pastel chalk staining just before installing them.
the unpainted support mounts:
After determining where the new mounts should be, I made a very simple depth gauge in order to get all four in the same location:
The bombs at this point:
painted mounts:
And that's all I got for now, folks! Thanks for following along!
Borrowing another idea from my Tigercat build, I think I'll paint the nacelles before installing the landing gear from above, before assembling the wing halves and before attaching them to the fuselage. That technique worked well on the all-yellow Tigercat, and I hope it'll work on this camoed bird too. I'll attach the gear after the area around the nacelle is painted and then I'll just need to protect them when painting the rest of the wing, up to that point. This just sounds like less stress than fishing the landing gear up from the bottom or installing them first and then masking around them. 
