The IP and consoles look a lot better than PE! Well done!

Thanks, Tom. The decals I have are for C-236 but I can just flip the last number. I have Pablo Calcaterra's Osprey book on the Sea Harrier vs the Mirage/Dagger - a very good read. I have also seen his fine modeling work on Modeling Madness of the Hasegawa and Hobbycraft A-4s. Good to know the correct load out. It looks like C-204 had the yellow ID panels, which I like. Do you know if C-239 had them as well?

That's a great idea using the flat clear over the decal consoles. I wonder if other flat acrylics will work just as well because who knows how much longer MM clear flat will still be available. That cockpit looks "absolutely marvelous", as Fernando on SNL used to say.

Looks great, Colin.

Colin, that is awesome. Yes, I like it a lot! I think that Eric refers to the fact that MM has indeed stopped makint the paint, and whenever you trip over a bottle you should get it. Only availabl as long as stock last! The importer in Denmark still has a few different colors available, but not a lot.

@coling - According to Pablo, all the FAA A-4s did have the yellow panels.

Thanks, guys for your supportive comments. Thanks also to Eric and Erik for the info on MMAcryl paints. Guess I should stock up while I still can. Those expensive little bottles have got to be profitable for Rustoleum, though. They are priced like gold, compared to automotive and house paints.

Please convey my appreciation to Pablo, Tom and thanks for inquiring for me. I hope he might want to jump into the GB some day. Lots of subjects to cover, yet.

Here is a brief update on the Skyhawk. I added the last detail to the cockpit: an oxygen hose made from guitar string.

This matches real cockpit photos I've seen of how it fits in the A-4 beside the seat. I glued in a hefty fishing weight plus a few more fragments not pictured. Hopefully that will handle the landing gear stance - it's pretty nose heavy now. In fact, it was so nose heavy that I dropped it while painting and had to repair the face curtain firing handle on the seat, which snapped off. With the intakes and fan painted, I glued the fuselage halves together and am now ready to sand the seams. I dry fitted the lower wing for now for photography. I will be ready for the first stages of painting soon, which will begin with the red slat and flap bay detail. I am feeling good about this build. Hope you like what you see, even though it may not be too exciting yet, it is obviously a crucial stage for me.

Thanks, Spiros. A bit lonely in this GB but here goes nothing.

I attached the intakes and did most necessary filling and sanding for the fuselage and wings.

this was another case where I attached the top wing halves to the fuselage before adding the bottom wing to the hold assembly (see below). It makes for a very good fit. BTW, I plan to recreate or reshape the balsa intake covers from my SuE paint process to do the same with them for the Skyhawk. That will come later. In the meantime, I have solved one other nagging "problem" of the Hasegawa A-4 - the odd un-aerodynamic "step" at the back of the slat bay. I was going to leave this but decided to create styrene sheet inserts to correct it after all. I had to add a small strip inside to make sure it fit flush at the back. All detail seen on the Hasegawa flap pay was rescribed in the white styrene insert. Accuracy issue fixed! I then glued on the bottom wing half.
I have spent a lot of time research the bombs and mounting arrangements for the Argentinian A-4B. I won't go into detail about this just yet but suffice it to say it's complicated! Anyway, I recently received the required TER (Triple Ejector Rack) for the 500 pounders from eBay. Now I just have to re sculpt some bombs to match research images and data before moving on to painting.