Looking super, my friend @yann!
Yep, all those little protruding thingies will fly away if attached at early stages...

Hi Lis @lis. No problem encountered with the liquid mask. I use to get some with a certain brand but then I changed to Abteilung 502 and have to say that I'm very pleased with this product.

You are right, @yann. I also try to glue everything I can on the plane before painting, especially the landing gear. I like having something for the plane to sit on while the paint is drying. I do try to hold the pitot and radio mast till the end.

Judged by the look in the actual photo of the landing gear bay, it seems the colour is actually Flat Aluminium/Aluminum (XF-16 if you use Tamiya Acrylic paint).

Very nice paintwork, Yann @yann
And a very creative use of clothespins, but it definitely works.

Hi Folks, I used my weekend to decaling the kit. I was surprised by the Airfix decals. All of them went smoothly on the surface. Except for the Roundels and the Code. I destroyed the first roundel (I think my water has cooled down a bit too much) and the letter 'J' has been destroyed as well. Hopefully I could find back the correct roundels and a 'J' (which has to be trimmed) in my decals collection (Decals from Spit Mk I from Tamiya). And there is the result.

On the Tamiya Letter 'J', I got a lot of silvering. I tried a new technic. I applied Tamiya extra thin cement on the silvered parts, then again applied Micro Set and eventually rub it with a cotton but in roder to remove the plastic carrying film.

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Hi Alan @Akcli2008, it was very difficult for me to judge the actual color of wheel well. I started by a flat light grey and decided after the advices of John @johnb to swop to aluminum.