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jkim wrote:Great job on the gap filling Carlos! It looks like cleanup is more of a challenge given some of the raised details.

Yes clean up is a challenge with the raised detail. I did rescribe some stuff, and will be covering other raised details with tape when I do seam clean up. I have the wings on now and am leting the dry for the next while. Another built in pause point. But thankfully, the gaps there are not anywhere near as bad as I feared from the test fittings.

The past 48 hours or so has been major progress on this build. As I said before, I added the wings and the engine cowl, as well as add the supercharger scoop





And then since during seam clean up I sanded away a couple details that I could not easily replace by scribing due to difficulties with my scribing template in that area, so I added a couple pieces of strip styrene to replace those details.



Today I sanded those strips down to a more scale thickness to replicate the lost details



I cleaned up the wing join seams





And on the bottoms after seam clean up I added the drop tank rack, where I had to replace one broken off brace, and some blisters (not sure what they are for...)



I also added the tropical air filter, which for this kit was molded in the open position, so I hollowed out the opening



I cleaned up,the mold seam lines and ejector pin marks off the landing gear struts and doors, and glued those together, as well as cleaning up the seam on the drop tank



lastly I added the horizontal stabilizers and tack glued the spinner in place... NOW it looks like a 109....

Not sure if I sent ya this.

Thank you for those Bruce. No you had not sent them to me before.

I masked up the canopy this evening and glued the pilot's head aremor in place. Tomorrow I am gonna glue the canopy in place then later on I can start airbrushing!!!! BANZAI!!!!

LET THE PAINTING COMMENCE!!!

Last night I masked up the canopy and had it ready to glue in place this morning. So first thing today I glued it in place, then went and did my errands while it dried.



then after errands I did my air brushing. Working light to dark, Flat White then Satin White on the nose, tail band and wingtips, RLM 02 Gray on the landing gear and wheel wells, and Satin black on intake openings and the main wheel hubs. All enamels today, mostly Humbrol, except for the RLM 02 where I used Model Master.











I'll let this all dry overnite, mask it up in the morning, then apply the main colors of Blue RLM 78 and Brown RLM 79 tomorrow as things stand right now.

Really looking nice Stik! Great work on cleaning up the gaps and seams.

Thanks Doc! Fortunately Airfix uses a softer styrene compared to many companies, so seam clean up is not as difficult.

Looking good...

Thanks Blacksheep. This has been a fun and nice change of pace. Just like my favored old Monogram kits, these old Airfix kits can really be made to look sharp with just a some old school efforts.

A little while ago I test fitted the main landing gear...





Now I feel like giving some Tim Allen grunts of success.. ARRG ARRGGGHH ARR!!!