Thanks very much guys, I used the eduard PE for those bits. The PE in the kit is ok but a bit harder to bend. I've made a fair bit of progress in the past couple of days and the Chinook is sat in the spray box ready to go.
I used Alclad paints on the engines and exhaust, a mix of burnt iron, light burnt metal and jet exhaust. I'm leaving them as that I think, no point detailing too much as most of the engines are concealed now.
The two halves of the fuselage were hard work to join together actually. I set the glue using some rubber bands and used perfect plastic putty in all the gaps. It's handy stuff as it dissolves with water, so you can get into some hard to reach gaps then wipe the excess away to avoid having to sand. I won't bore you with too many pics of that though!
The metal legs and then the wheels went on next, then some added bits of PE. I don't have a clue what they are but they look jazzy enough!
The part of the build process that I think I enjoy the least is normally the masking. You can spend an hour sometimes masking up something which takes about ten seconds of spray time. Luckily the masks provided in the Big Ed set were there to help with the task but it still took hours to mask it all up ready for the main spray.
I give the front canopy an under coat of flat black to colour the inside of the glass first and it's now time to take it out into the garden to give it a few coats of Tamiya surface primer from the can. I made the mistake of spraying that stuff indoors once. I got a right telling off from Claire!
