Thanks John will just go with the wrong decals, oh well. Not going to any shows anyways, just among it's brethren on the shelf.
Spiros, a nice challenge of a kit.
Now to finally finish up the decal process.
Once the clear coat is dry to seal the decals, time to work on the main and tail gears. Starting with the tail units.
At first as you prepare the parts to assemble. You get this sinking feeling that this assembly will not hold up over time. But once assembled, they do feel sturdy enough. This is a large plane not a typical Mustang on a much smaller airframe.
All along through out the build it felt like building two Mustangs. The set of tail wheel assemblies built up with little difficulty, the instruction are a bit vague that the retractors are at an angle as it inserts into the tail wheel bay.
Using Cyano too attach each tail wheel into the bay. Once set, the fit feels sturdy enough.
Next is to attach the tail wheel bay doors, The attachment points are good and solid here.
Now the main gear and wheels. Finally a set of normal gear on one airframe, made up of 2 Mustangs. The wheels are assembled. Kit wheels are nice and will use them.
The struts and wheels
Then the struts are inserted into the main gear bays. Fit is excellent, good sturdy contact point, not fiddly.
Now to install the bay doors. For a kit that has been challenging through out the build, the landing gear process has been quite a no issue step.
2 sets of doors are simply attached in place with in the bay, starting with the outer doors.
Then the inner doors are attached. All 4 doors had a solid contact point and set up quite well.
The gear is all in and after an hour of letting things set, she is now on her feet.
Next up, decal and install the props, lamps and the sliding canopy. Then configure the ordnance package.
more to follow...
