Blimey, Chris, I think you ought to try a Contrail vacform instead - it would be easier! 
Jon

You cracked on with this model Chris.  Looking good.

Looking nice Chris.

Looking forward to it 

Some nice detail showing.

Shades of Humbrol Fire Red perhaps?

Looks like another great build in the offing.

Coming along nicely.

This is the Italeri boxing of the MPM kit and that's where the fun begins!! I'd fancied making a Hudson for some time and when the chance came along to get one I jumped at it. Perhaps I should have jumped further, I seem lately to be picking challenging kits, but I digress. The kit was 'pre-loved' so was part built unfortunately parts like the fuselage windows should have been fitted before closing up the fuselage. They're too big to fit from the outside and would require serious work to get them to fit so it will be Glue and Glaze once the camoflague is finished. The instructions would have you cut off a small triangle from the top of instrument panel, turn it 180deg and then fit the instrument panel. Not possible with the fuselage joined and the control column fitted so just the triangle was fitted along with some packing. The bomb aimer/navigators area had also been fitted and when I came to fit the lower nose half and the table this caught on the seat. After trying various ways I opted for cutting the width of the table. None of the clear parts for the nose match up to each other or the fuselage with the same problem found with the cockpit glazing. Lots of filling and sanding have been done and the fit still isn't perfect. One good thing about this buy is that it includes Eduard masks for the clear parts so these were applied before Tamiya Cockpit Green was applied followed by a coat of primer with the undersurfaces sprayed Vallejo Sky Type 'S'. This build was meant to be a 'filler' whilst working on the Anson but has turned into a major build. The biggest problem by far is the fact that there was only one set of engine cowling covers in the box so I've had to make a 'firewall' and will leave the staboard engine exposed.

Wings closed up and engines fitted followed by the resin undercarriage then it was on to masking the canopies and turret using Tamiya tape and Maskol. Lower surfaces were sprayed Tamiya Aluminium which was then masked and the upper colours of Dark Earth Dark Green, again from Tamiya were applied. The decals were then applied over two coats of Klear and went down well apart from one of the fin stripes which doubled over, being touched up with dark blue. The resin exhausts were then fitted as were other small parts around the engine and on the fuselage. The tail aerial housing took a bit of work to get it to sit correctly as it's a round molding sitting on the fuselage joint, so sanding and cutting of both parts was done. The resin landing light housing and clear cover don't match up and after several attempts at trying to rectify this I decided to leave it off. The top half of the housing was painted over in real life anyway so there isn't that much of a loss.