ANTENNA WIRING
Now I'm speeding to the finish line. Thanks Spiros and John B.
As you can see, I've made some serious progress and now rigging the antenna. I was going to use EZ Line but after I glued one end to the mast, I discovered the styrene is so flexible that the slightest bit of tension causes the tip to arc. Off went the EZ Line and now I'm trying out my old stand by, "invisible" sewing thread. Let's see what happens next.

Great looking already, Eric @eb801
Did not expect EZ line to be that strong.

Tom: Thanks! That’s quite a compliment. Detail wise GWH’s Devastator is a big improvement over Monogram’s but it’s not a quick or easy build.

John: To get EZ Line to look good, you have to stretch it tight, other wise it looks like a piece of rubber band.

Erik: That’s it. You’ve convinced me. I’m going to order some Uschi now.

Fantastic! With Erik on the Uschi van der Rosten. I use the Super-fine for my 1:48 antenna as I think its more to scale but after looking a few who use the thread for 1:48, I might get some of that as well

WINGS ATTACHED!
But in the meantime, I attached the antenna without any problems using invisible sewing thread and proceeded to the wing attachments.

Before I go any further I have to confess I screwed up the wingfold crank mechanism as seen in the image below. I got so frustrated by the tiny parts I just left them off:

I continued on and got the wings attached which is somewhat tricky and the instructions don't spell out what the trick is getting a proper fit nor did any online reviews I examined. But here it is. Almost finished at last. I have to add some PE to the pitot tube and do a bit of clean up and then one more work in progress posting and it's off to the photo shoot and headlines. Thanks you all for following along this far.

Looks good but perhaps you should have considered unfolding the wings. Overall an excellent piece of work.

That is one fine build Eric (@eb801). It has been a very interesting journey - thank you for sharing all the ups and downs.