This is the 2019 Revell boxing of the Cyber Hobby kit and as such has raised panel lines, shallow undercarriage bays,sink holes and knock out points. The upper fuselage has the door markings for the Mk.1's navigator position with the 'bulged' door of the Mk.2 on one of the sprues. Interestingly (?) this is not shown in the instructions and there are no locating holes. The etch brass one in the after market set I have does not allow for the bulge so isn't being used. Also of note is that the navigators side window doesn't fit so this has been left off with Kristal Klear to be used later. Lots of weight has been put in the forward body to hopefully prevent tail-sitting. With the nose cone and tail booms then attached a lot of sanding/filling/sanding was done before a coat of primer showed where more work was needed. I've fitted the nosewheel and main legs to try and keep the body off the workbench as best as.
Looks like it's going to be a beast!
Looks like a good start Chris.
The booms have taken a lot of work to get something like, more work should be done on the profile but if I do then I'll lose the raised panel lines in the area so it's a trade-off. They don't looktoo bad from certain angles thankfully. I've also spent time on the wingfold etch, initially putting some of the smaller parts to one piece and then I used the kit plastic parts to try and set the angle after which the etch was superglued to the outer wing panels.
Did you manage to enough ballast in the nose?
Nice work on those wings folds.
I've put some in the nose and forward fuselage Kev. A roll test over a pencil seemed to show there's enough but I'll know better once I put the main wheels on.
Once again the Tamiya gloss white didn't want to adhere to the primer so it was oversprayed with Halfords.
Looks nice and even though.
Looking good.