Light tan and touchups

To obtain my desired not sharp-not soft ("hardsoft"...go figure...anyway) demarcation lines, I used tac to define the camo borders and headed to the paintshop again:

After light tan was applied, microtouchups back and forth took place, to correct any minor imperfections, overspray etc. here is the result:

Now, everything is drying...
Cheers!

Yep, that's my preferred drying method, my friend @airbum, with Kafetoula (our neighborhood dog) as guardian!

And with this "first look" at the painted plane, the intakes look just right to me. Very nice Spiros.

Improvising...

I am ok with the simplistic ficticious-ish cockpit, which will disappear under its small opening, the almost black base color and the closed thick canopy, which will distort to the point of believing that everything inside the cockpit tub looks as it should look underneath...

I cannot say the same for the area on top...

...so, here we go:

There's a cylindrical device behind the polot's headrest, connected with wiring that ends in two small "boxes"at the two sides of the rear coockpit wall. It is depicted at the Classic Airframes instructions pretty clearly...

Hobbycraft provided a very generic rectangular box, to be glued behind the pilot's headrest, that I found too simplistic.

So, I cut a piece of cylindrical styrene and glued it behind the headrest. I also cut two smallish flat pieces and glued them bilaterally of the pilot's headrest. Those boxes were connected with the cylinder by appropriately cut and bent stretched sprue, resembling the real thing more than before.

The cockpit was painted a very dark grey (Hu32), with black panels and olive drab seat cushion to follow:

I then turned my attention to the nose landing gear. This is the Hobbycraft "suggestion" (sic):

This is the totally irrelevant reality...

To remedy this, I first filed appropriately the wheel holding brackets and glued them at a correct looking angle...

To fabricate the nonexisting scissors, I cut a small flat styrene piece for the top part...

and glued two minuscule pieces of stretched sprue at an appropriate angle, to "form" the unsimplistic looking bottom scissors part. This is the final result:

Less than perfect, but better than before!

Cheers, great DH100GB!

Great save my friend! As usual you come up with a few snips and voilá, something completely different. Well done.

Decals on...

...trying to snuggle them down with Mr Mark Softer...

Yep, I used the kit ones Eric @eb801.

From net searching I found that they cover the subject more or less adequately.

It has been stated that "black box" Hobbycraft kit decals (as my kit is) are good...

Well, they looked good attached to their glossy backing paper, and they were easilly detached after 10-15 secs soaking in tepid water, They behaved ok, but the green insignia were stiff, having difficulty to adhere onto the curvy boom, being only partially attached .

Mr Mark Softer came to the rescue, applying a droplet on the decal, waiting a couple of minutes to soften and very carefully fully attach it with a moisted qtip.