Looking great, my friend @inflames!

@inflames - this is some very nice work - you're headed toward a pair of excellent results.

I have finished both engines for the duo this week.

Wildcat's P&W R-1830 Twin Wasp is nicely done and you even have exhaust pipes at the back, although they are of same length and don't reach the front cylinder row. The electric wiring, the ring and spark plug cables are made of photo-etched parts, are extremely thin and can hardly be seen in the photo.

Dauntless' Wright R-1820 Cyclone engine is also nicely moulded, however, there is no electric wiring provided, so I created it using various diameter lead wires. Tedious work but in the end, I think it was more than worth it.

Amazing looking engines, Sebastijan @inflames
Very realistic.

Thanks guys! I am really picking up the pace now, trying to finish them ASAP and start the Il-2. I am doing a good progress but unfortunately bad luck struck and I managed to break the tip of the pitot tube on the Dauntless and have no real idea how to fix this. It is a complex shape, sort of like a hockey stick, with the tube itself circular but flattening on the wide part.

You can scratch one using .010 plastic sheet, that you cut to shape. It's not hard to do (ask me how I know)

I think this is fixable, Sebastijan (@inflames), providing the part didn't end up lost. Stuff like pitot tubes, machine guns, tail wheel struts, etc become magnets at the end of a build for anything that will rip them off. It seems like the handling that we do when painting, decaling, and finishing the model is destined to break something. I have this happen all the time, and have had success either gluing them back together or rebuilding it. Probably best to wait until everything else is done. Good luck.

Hope you will find your canopy piece, or come up with a viable solution, my friend @inflames!