Surgery needed!

As I may have mentioned earlier, I forgot to install the MG’s in the cowling

I tried to come up with a clever plan to get them in place, but all my smart thinking fell to the ground.

To start with, some details of the work so far;

The radiator flaps has been installed

Now, deep breath and out with the saw. . . .

And off it came.

And with relative ease the kit MG’s are in place, Tamiys extra thin doing its bit.

Hopefully it won’t be another 10 weeks before the next progress report on this one – stay tuned and feel free to leave a constructive comment or two

Great progress, Erik (@airbum). This build has been going for a while. I can't tell you how many times I get near the end of a build and find something on a sprue that should already go someplace on the model that is totally inaccessible. Great job getting everything where it should go!

Luck follows the crazy ones

at least that is what I’m told

And I consider myself very crazy indeed!

When I got the nose sawn off, I discovered that one of the wells that will take the exhausts was not at all glued in place – in fact it only held on by the last few mm’s

And when it all had dried just enough to stay in place, the nose was re-installed.

Phew, that was a wakeup call off some sorts – and now on to one of the other kits yelling at me from their buildboxes

That was a slick trick, Erik (@airbum). The nose would probably have exploded if I tried the same thing. Well done.

Well carried out approach, Erik.
If it would occur to me, I surely would need to think twice before starting such a surgery.

Flappin’

With the nose in place, it is on to the flippin’ flaps

And time to get elevated too – well, nose down that is. Bugger.

And the ailerons have been adjusted to the correct position too

And as of tonight this is where it is

and next it is off to the prime shop

Thank you Spiros. The idea was to depict it as just landed and pushed back, the "schwartze männer" having the panel off to service the radio - or remove the batteri?
Nothing gets by the PFP QC group it seems @fiveten 🙂

Great results and ditto thoughts, Erik.