I am waiting for a peaceful day, and relaxing evening. I need to glue the wing struts in place, and that will need concentration and no interruption. Kind of challenging in these days. In the meanwhile I glued the all the small photoetched bits, cleaned up a few small mistakes, but it is basically ready to paint once the glue sets on the wing struts.

Your assembly jig really looks like a useful tool, Csaba (@pikofix). I remember building a few biplanes a long time ago when I would assemble the two wings with nothing more than a "wing and a prayer". This jig makes the outcome a lot more certain. Time is always a problem. I am retired, and I still sometimes have trouble finding time to build.

Finally, I managed to glue the struts to the lower wings and fuselage. I will leave the model in the jig overnight, Tamiya’s super thin cement needs a bit of time to set properly. I switched to the quick type recently, but I still have a bottle of the normal version for this kind of jobs.
It seems that the jig was a good investment, it would have been very difficult to glue this together without some form of support.

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Great job ther, my friend @pikofix!
Yes, the jig looks like it was a great investment!

Looking great csaba. I have to join the choir and say the jig looks like it is something one can not live without - as long as you know it exists! I will add one to the wish list.

This is coming along very well. Your strut alignment looks great. Yellow can be challenging. I just painted two yellow airplanes in a row. I used Tamiya white lacquer primer on both. One was finished with 3 coats of Humbrol #24, the other received 3 coats of Mr. Color #329.

You are putting a lot of quality work there, my friend @pikofix! Yep, those are difficult shades to apply... the yellow even worse than white...
Looking forward to this super build!

John @j-healy , I remember your Tiger Moth, looks great. One of the recent Airfix releases has a silver/red-white checkered scheme included. That would look great next to this yellow-red version. Also, the two types are from the same period, but very different background.
Thanks @johnb @fiveten and @gblair - I have just made a layer of Tamiya neutral grey over the sanded surfaces, this time all look good. Next step is to build again the white layers and blend everything together.

However, it will take some time until the next update. I broke my trusty old Gabbert Triplex airbrush today! Triplex is (was?) a German brand, and it has been a challenge to find spare parts for years. As far as I know, it was a small, family owned business, and after the owner decided to retire, the constant supply of spare parts suddenly stopped. Just a few weeks ago, I managed to source spare parts, spent nearly 100 EUR on O-rings, nozzles and needles. The problem is that the company does not deliver outside Germany for whatever mysterious reason. Luckily part of the family lives there, so they can forward the package to me.

Today I noticed a very small, constant airflow, even when the trigger was in its default position. Usually the root cause is in the valve assembly or at the trigger. I took a look at the valve, opened and closed the housing a few times, and after a few attempts the end screw gave up. Its small opening for a hex key just rounded off - I used too much force when I assembled the unit. So now I have an airbrush with constant leakage and a broken valve assembly.
I have just placed an order for a new main body and a few small components to make a new valve assembly. It costs 45 EUR (55 USD), but still cheaper than buying a new, quality airbrush.
However, together with the previous 100 EUR order, I am getting close to the price level of a H&S Evolution Solo with 0,2 and 0, 4mm nozzles. Of course it is still cheaper that the old dream, the H&S Infinity with similar nozzle sizes (0,15 and 0,4mm in that edition).
I hope I did not waste other 45 EUR on this old airbrush. Would be great to fix it and keep using it for other 15 years.

Ahhh, life happens, right?