Thank you Gentlemen for your encouragement. Sorry I haven't posted in a while I started a new job and I've been very busy. Anyway an update.
Over the past couple of months (has it really been that long!) I have been busy adding the rivet detail and panel lines on the nacelles (That Airfix didn’t), reinforcing the undercarriage with strategic dabs of tinted epoxy, and pegging the wheels so I can anchor the model to a base.
I have also added detail to the fire walls and blanked off the messy closure at the rear of the carburetor air intake with a black plastic card blank covered by a riveted plate and crash moulded some covers for the tops of the undercarriage legs. After a lot of chin rubbing I decided to cut off the fire wall mountings from the engine mounts so I could add the engine control linkages which pass over them. The white plastic card fittings were scratch built using another modelers work as reference but I found that these didn’t match the reference material I found after building them (Typical) so were not used. The linkages are handed and this point took some figuring out. Any gaps in the fire wall assembly were filled with Evergreen strip. I have also replaced any miss formed or missing elements of the engine mounts with more Evergreen. The mating surfaces on the nacelles for the cowling panels have been removed and replaced with drilled plastic card.

Thanks for looking,

Rob.

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It's been a while but work continues around other commitments. The nacelles are painted and detailing of the engines is well under way. I've come to the conclusion that the Merlins in the kit are a hybrid and trying to find clear pictures is tricky. Thankfully fellow member Mark Housley has given me several books from his extensive library. The fittings are made from the usual suspects mainly wire, solder, telescopic brass tubing, Evergreen strip and Meng nuts and bolts. Everything will be given a coat of eggshell to hide the glue smudges, I mean harmonise the finish.I've punched out several hundred bolt heads from dental foil and I'm in the process of adding them, about 120 are on the can covers alone. I can control my OCD any time I like I just choose not to...

Rob.

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Always plenty of scope for detailing with these big kits. It's a shame so much of your fine engineering detailing will be covered up, but that's the way of things with modelling. Superb work, though, and a level of attention we don't see very often.

Beautiful. Just beautiful. That's what I want my models to look like. One day...