Glued the landing gear legs in place.

The mains are glued in a good forward angle, "secured" with their weak retraction cylinders. They are extremely flimsy and prove very difficult to set at the correct angles. So, after letting the glue curing a bit, for the joints to become a tad stronger, I placed the model on its own weight at my bench, with the rear part touching the wall and the front part held in place with my heavy tweezer tool.

I set the gear legs at the correct angles. Since the model is secured, it will not move and the glue will harden overnight with the legs at the correct angles. I use this technique when I have "flimsy" landing gear to attach.

Keep up the good work, great GB!

Thanks Louis @lgardner!

Thanks @airbum! If specific equipment is non-existant, I don't mind improvising with whatever I have at hand to reach the desired outcome! i don't mind at all!

and a little update:

Wheels were glued, along with the two small outward MLG doors. I managed to glue those doors at the wing AND at a MLG leg spot (which is how they are connected in reality, anyway). In this way, the flimsy join benefited from some strength.

Flimsy but great I might add. . . now you just have to hold your breath long enough to add the details my friend 🙂

Bad weather delayed vacation departure, so, some small progress:

Glued the distinctive front and the smaller rear antenna masts.
Painted the rear side propeller tips.
Microtououched up the canopy frames (a bit more is required)
Gave the undersurafaces a black wash to bring out any engraved detail.
The wing mounted pitot has flown to hyperspace, so I will have to fabricate one.

Hi Spiros. Your Shinden is looking awesome! Can't wait to see the end result! Well done.

Sorry to hear about the weatherdelay, but at least that gives us some nice progress to look at. I do hope the pitot will send you a postcard 🙂
Well, such little critters tend to live their own lives sometimes, but that just gives the PFP special section yet another chance to shine with their custom made parts. Looking very good my friend - happy holidays whenever they may come!

Hi everyone!

Finished the yellow lines at the propeller.

Then some weathering.

Since the Shinden was a prototype, having flown only three times and, as is documented by the available photos, it was understandably kept in very good condition.

So I went very subtle, with some oiling/dirtying/staining at the undersides and some very little dirtying at the topsides...

...with some more at the undersides.

I couldn't resist and VERY VERY LIGHTLY - practically invisibly - silver drybrushed some parts of the cockpit, the propeller leading edges (close to the tips) and the wing roots, where the pilot and the technicians would step to get into that cockpit.

Lieutenant Commander Masayoshi Tsuruno, technical staff of the IJN, was the one whom the canard design Shinden was originated. He was the one who performed the first flight and probably the other two.

So here he is, in the process of painting as he is nicely provided by Hasegawa!

A coat of almost gloss satin coat is next!