Thank heaven for plastic card with this one........

The fuselage has been joined and a Navigator's table made and painted for the front of the fuselage. The engines were built up but I had to sand the tops of the pistons to get the cowlings to fit, even then there were small gaps that needed filling. The undercarriage legs are fragile to say the least and when fitted to the 'base plates' they sat at the wrong angle once the wings were joined so I carefully prized one side off and inserted a small piece of 35thou plastice card. The wings also needed work once joined and then attached to the fuselage. The kit pieces for the rear end of the fuselage are larger than the main body they have to join to so I matched up the top panel lines and have used filler to try and blend it in. Failing that I may have to sacrifice some panel and rivet detail. The tailwheel also sat too low in it's 'housing' so another piece of 35thou was inserted as a base.

Thanks for the positive comments.

A really nice result. Well done.

Looking very nice Martin. The detail is great.

Looks great Chris.

Coat of flory wash on the dock, can you sort out the 2 sections that have had some removed

great

Great weathering on the blocks.

I ordered some Vallejo Deep Yellow for the nose but it isn't quite a match for the Theatre stripes so I'll put that down to wear in combat!! The black stripe on the nose is a decal which followed the course of things and broke in several places so touch ups were required as in a few other places. Then it was time to fit all the parts left off to prevent breakages such as the pitot tube, fuel dump pipe etc. The pilot was added and the canopy afixed with Elmo's Purple in case I want to reposition it at some point. I'm now calling a close to this build, not perfect but more things learnt along the way.