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That's a very nice bit of cockpit work Kari - very nicely done!

You certainly achieved a better result than I did!

BlackSheep214 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 20, 2025 7:57 am Looking good!

Thanks Tom!

Gary Brantley wrote: ↑Sun Jul 20, 2025 8:12 am Wow, that is some great work, Kari! Your cockpit looks super, top work, my friend!

Thank you Gary, appreciate your kind words!

Medicman71 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 21, 2025 2:29 pm It looks great!

Thanks Mike!

Stuart wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 1:40 am That's a very nice bit of cockpit work Kari - very nicely done!

Thanks Stuart!

jeaton01 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 12:12 pm You certainly achieved a better result than I did!

Thank you John, I truly value your words, but without your build (which I find very nice) I would never have had the energy to start the build!

- Kari

Work goes on rather smoothly. I have started to have some challenges with fits.
Nevertheless, the build starts to look like a P-51D.



But I had an annoying mishap with masking the canopy...

Who on earth makes these kind of instructions??
When I had masked the inside of the canopy, I only realized that the interior masks are "below" and the exteriors "above" on the masking sheet. I bet I am not the only one who made this mistake.. Not really user friendly.





Let's see what next!

- Kari

That's annoying but I'm sure you'll get it sorted!

It's looking great!

Thanks Stuart, fingers crossed, when the masks are removed then we know...

- Kari

Main paintwork ongoing, have been black basing / priming the fuselage, except the front that will be yellow.
Read somewhere that lime green is actually a good primer for yellow, so will try that. Looks sort of good with a lime green cowling, spinner etc





- Kari

I'll be interested to see how the yellow turns out over a lime green base. I have had good luck using white or yellow zinc chromate as a base for yellow myself.

Agreed, that looks a really interesting method.

I haven't seen that one before. Can't wait to see it.