Thanks my friend @wkubacki!

I added brake lines at the MLG (couldn't help it... 🙂 )

Thanks @lis!

Thanks my friend @holzhamer!
Yep, I rarely follow the "modeling rule" of light shades first...

Thanks my friend @j-healy!
Engines, cowling lips and aileron mass balances installed, touchups in progress:

@fiveten Decals or painted hinomaru?

Looks good @fiveten !

I attached the exhausts and performed some weathering (dirtying, engine staining, chipping at the cowling lips etc). Here are the results:

It's true that in 1/72 weathering must usually be quite subtle, in order to look "scale", or something like that!

In some cases, like here, some heavier weathering might not be totally wrong, also being nicely dramatic (...let alone the fact that conditions in China, 1939, would be far from ideal...). So, I took my heavier than usual weathering chances here!

...slowly approaching final coating...

Thanks for stopping by!