Adding rivets is a long story... a lot of work to be done.

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That Tamiya Buffalo is a nice older kit but rather scarce in detail. I absolutely love what you’ve done to the wheel wells, cockpit and fuselage interior. I am very much looking forward to your continued progress. Personally I like the Finnish Buffalo but I’m sure it’s going to be a beauty regardless of what scheme you choose.

Uh oh! Hahahha. I was saddened to read your response as I’ve built this kit about eight years ago and took great pains to scratch build the see-through floor and detail the cockpit. As you can see from the pictures, I seem to have made a critical error on the window :-).
I wish I had met you sooner!

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@markrezac oh, sorry for that 🙂 I've started comparing Tamiya's paint options with historical references and found that fact. But, anyway, you did a good job with your model!

@davem Thanks, David! I also feel good about working on it. All of those unfinished kits make me very uncomfortable in a hobby shop 🙂

That undeside window was a feature of 30s U.S. Naval fighters, Buffalo, Corsair, and Wildcat. Believe it or not, the Corsair prototype had small bomb bays in the wings, and the theory (later war both both the Japanese and Germans tried it) being to bomb (I think) other aircraft! Eventually, the windows were plated over, painted over or just let go. More likely for carrrier landings, also, given the problems seeing over the nose coming aboard.

@berniehackettboymodeler That's why I'm doing US Navy version – because of that window 🙂

@gkittinger Thanks, Greg!

Not much updates, I was able to finish riveting of a fuselage parts, and that's all. But, finally I'm moving back to cockpit stuff.

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A small update. I've made a wall between the cockpit and the wheel bay – for some unknown reason kit lacks this detail. I've added additional pipelines made of soldering wire (very handy material for such purposes), and primed everything with Mr.Surfacer 1500.

The next question was – in which color an interior of F2A-2 was painted? After some searches I've found information, that cockpits and wheel bays of F2A-1 and F2A-2 were painted with silver lacquer, but around a pilot seat areas were painted with anti-glare black, so I did the same on my model.

Cockpit was painted with Hataka lacquer "silver" and then gloss coated with the varnish of the same manufacturer (also lacquer) as a preparation for washes.

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Absolutely beautiful cockpit. Can’t wait to see more.