Good job on these not too easy kits, Magnus. Wish you all the best and happy modelling !

Nacelles and lower surfaces of wings "primed" using Gunze RLM 76. No reason to make things complicated! I'll need to touch-up some blemishes at the rear end of the nacelles but otherwise things looks just fine! Seat is ready for detail painting - stay tuned!

Regards

Magnus

After some rather tedious (and risky) sanding around the canopy things are now finally moving forward again.

Canopy epoxied in place and carefully faired in using CA glue where there wasn't enough of the epoxy to get an even seam. Using epoxy, ensuring that the gap between canopy and fuselage is thoroughly sealed, enables using CA to level the seam later on since the fogging caused by the CA will be restricted to the outside, which can be easily cleaned and polished.

While I was at it, I installed the landing gear using epoxy as well. It gives a strong joint and can be adjusted but I will try to get myself a faster brand for this kind of job! I went to bed before it had set thoroughly so this morning I had to use another of the handy white-metal properties: it can be bent and twisted slightly for adjustment 🙂 !

And finally, an ill-fitting wing was attached to the fuselage with some of the gaps filled in using plasticard scraps. The upper wing roots will be filled and sculpted using Milliput later today.

Regards

Magnus

She is looking good Magnus, , things are blending in quite nicely so far.

Simon and Ken! Thanks!

Canopy masked using Bare-Metal foil.

Rudder with an added trimtab and actuator and stabilizers with dropped elevators and new "endplates" where they attach to the fin!

Regards

Magnus

Hi Greg!

With a bit of luck, the HPM kit you are waiting for might very well be mainstream injection kit making the build a lot easier. After producing quite a substantial range of 1/72 limited run kits, HPM now seems to concentrate on steel-tool mainstream Mirages. They had a bunch in their initial range but a few years ago they were remade into "ordinary" kits, the old ones were nice but the kit standard still meant it was quite a handful of work to finish them!

Here is a build-blog of mine for one of the old kits.

Sorry for the slow progress, I'm away on holiday so nothing useful will be done before mid-July!

I've been rather into summer stuff for the last two months but with the onset of autumn I've found the urge to do some plastic again 🙂 !

A bit of a soft start, simply painting the wings to get into airbrushing mood once again. After the rest of the splinter stuff I think I can graduate to mottling level soon!

Regards

Magnus

The best part when building things Luftwaffe...

...the mottling! Still the engines to do and then I'm going to add some RLM02 as well (as per my Smith & Creek references and who am I to distrust them?) !

Regards

Magnus