Shading looks great, Ian (@firelockg). It does work well with light colors, but it will work with dark colors if you keep them thin. It is really easy to cover up all of your pre-shading, though.

The green went on yesterday, shading and thin top coat today. Must admit the shading is hard to see. Struts on top wing, next drill holes for rigging fixing points then make all the eyelets. Fun times ahead.

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Shaping up nicely, Ian. Rigging should interesting. Don’t at least two of the wires go through the middle wing on the tripe?

IAN Convey (@firelockg)
This is looking really good ! I like how you are doing this, and will be taking notes for the upcoming rigging.

Louis and Spiros, thank you gentlemen.

I drilled all mounting points for the rigging this afternoon then spent 1/2 hr on twisting up eyelets. Think I have enough. Also fitted the last of the Quinta decals as per the photos.

Whilst twisting eyelets I had an idea to try one on a gaspatch turnbuckle to see if it would be easy to have the eyelet and turnbuckle swivel , turns out it works, no more trying to drill at the correct angle for me , just drill square and cement the eyelet , turnbuckle will then align with the rigging perfectly. Eureka!

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Looks great, Ian @firelockg. I can't imagine having support wires going through the center wing. I guess you really have to mark the entry and exit points carefully.

John, George & Spiros,
There will be no turnbuckles on the rigging as they were hidden on the tripe, as for the wires going thru the centre wing , there are entrance and exit plates on the wing , trick is to get the angle between them right as they are not opposite each other . Must admit I have had to use a bit of filler on the first one.

These eyelets look really good and must be remarkably useful for rigging, Ian (@firelockg). I just got a couple of Roden kits (I think I have caught the biplane bug), so you will need to let me know your secret for Roden decals.