Basic cockpit elements attached and painted, engine is ready too...

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Thanks my friend @johnb!

Here are the wings fully glued (some flash to scrape away from the leading edges)...

The root areas are gap free, thanks to the above trick, for which I will give credit to both my friends @lgardner and @tcinla.

...and here she is so far...

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Thanks my friend @tcinla!

Thanks my friend @johnb! Indeed, a great trick! The wing halves locator pins typicallt have to be removed, in order to let the halves rest unstressed.

Fantastic progress!

For such a vintage kit your building methods seem to have led to a fairly seamless assembly, great work! @fiveten