Excellent cockpit, my friend @johnb!

Going really well, John. Looks great now it’s getting busy in the office!

The interior is final. At first I had my doubts about using the mahogany wooden strips but now that all is in place I'm quite happy with the result. Indeed not perfect but for an experiment not that bad to my idea.

Of course I had to make some modifications to the floor panel because it would not fit due to the added wooden side panels. Thinning was sufficient and the fuselage halves closed up nicely. As expected, not much to be seen from the interior.

The manual describes mounting this lower panel prior to fuselage closing. I decided however to mount it afterwards, it will be much easier to make it fit smoothly.

Preparation on the engine region has started. The cowling has some very thick sprue connections but they clean up quite nicely due to the softer plastic.

Cockpit looks excellent, my friend @johnb!
Good preparation of the cowling!

Prepared the wings, just a bit of cleaning. I plan to paint those separately from the fuselage because of the chosen scheme. The wings do have different colors, both upper and lower side, than the fuselage.

Excellent job so far, my friend @johnb! Wise decision to paint the wings separately.

John vd Biggelaar (@johnb)
This is really looking great. I especially like how the cockpit turned out. This should start coming together soon. I agree, it's a wise idea to paint it all separately.