Decals do indeed look great, Eric @eb801
Almost there.

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Eric, it’s really looking good when it comes to the paintwork.

About the UC legs, yep judging by your photo they do look a bit shy of the 190s rule, from which the Ta152 evolved from as you know.

Got this one from the Wiki page and serves the alignment angle of the UC purpose just fine. However take note that the tail wheel is completely down, probably no hydraulic pressure when the photo was taken. This makes the angle a bit more wide than it was when the AC was fully functional.

If you can, without compromising the plastic, try to get the legs angle a bit more forward. That would be my move, but then the model is yours 😉

@fiveten and @holzhamer: Here's the problem. The UC gear parts are glued in the moulded slot. To push them forward would require snapping them off and re-gluing them at the correct angle and you know what that's going to look like.

I wish I could heat the gear legs up a bit so I could bend them without doing damage to the paint or surrounding parts. I need to think about this a bit more.

Any ideas how to proceed?

@eb801: You can bend them forward - just don't push really hard. Get them in position and then "lock it" with C-A glue. Easy-peasy - BT/DT.

I actually have good success gluing broken gear back on - I use regular plastic glue, then surround the base of the gear leg with CA. You don't notice it and the two make a strong joint.

A successful modification, Eric @eb801
Looks much better this way.

Almost Finished!
After almost three weeks of ignoring this Ta-152, I'm back on it after struggling with the angle of the landing gear and redoing the canopy. I discovered never clean the canopy with alcohol after dipping it in Future and allowing it to fully cure. Fogged it up in a second so it was back to starting all over and re-Futuring it. At the moment it is not glued in place. A few more things to do like adding exhaust stains, a pitot and wiring the antenna. Should be able to finish it up this coming weekend. Oh wait, it's Mother's Day this Sunday here in the States.

Part of the delay in finishing this is caused by working on three kits at the same time which I've never done before. I've got a now ancient Otaki F6F-3 early Hellcat almost ready for paint and am plowing away at DoraWings' Curtiss-Wright Jeep in various stages of completion in addition to this build.