A much better look Spiros my friend !

Spiros (@fiveten), that is some nice corrective action you have been at this time too. The exhausts look a lot better with the filed openings, with promises of even more to come. Well done my friend.

Liquefied styrene added everywhere!

The Hobbycraft supplied struts presented a lot of gaps upon assembling them. This was augmented by my surgical operation of wings dettaching, repositoning and reattaching. Small longitudinal gaps appeared at the underside wing roots. I thus applied small quantities of liquefied styrene at every area that was supposed to have a smooth contour, but did not. Here are the results:

There were two holes aft of the wing struts fuselage attachment point. I believe they were applicable to the float version. Anyways, they were not present at U-1As, so they were filled with styrene rod.

Now all is drying, awaiting initial shaving and then sanding...

Cheers, DH100GB!

Thanks Tom @tcinla!
Stalled for a few days now, due to other projects "prioritizing", but I really miss it (all these "extras" put into it kind of create an extra affection...). Will come back to it the following days!

Moving on...

• Cowiling anti glare area
• Prop
• Eengine
• Exhausts innards

The engine had received some spark plug harness form stretched sprue, as it continued to look rather bland. It will show up upon silver drybrushing.
I also hand painted some rough areas with OD and medium green, kind of using the thick paint as a filler, to be smooth sanded upon drying. I also wanted to check which color looks "correct", as a final shade: well, despite the fact that instructions call for OD, judging from net-available color pics of those times, the fact is that during the firs Vietnam years the Otters (among others) wore a medium to dark green GLOSS overall camo, of which the green I have test-applied comes kind of close, which will be my choice...

This windscreen looks the part @fiveten well done this job on the Otter!

Painted...