Thanks my friend @airbum!

Started the party with the PE fret, which is absoloutely fantastic.

Cockpit front and side consoles added.

Pilot's seat done (sans the PE belts).

Bombardiers seat done too (magician hands lightly applied).

Ejection handles will be fabricated from stretched sprue (or, as Fonderie Miniature states: "tube and wire"!...)

I have to admit that PE and resin stuff is generously and wonderfully supplied from Fonderie Miniature.

Cockpit looks great, Sprios (@fiveten), although those seats look like medieval torture devices for the pilots. And I thought the seat in a T-37 was uncomfortable. Things will go quickly now that everything is sealed up in the fuselage.

Those small details makes it stand out - your scratchbuilding really rocks! Keep pushin' my friend. . .

Coming along nicely! I've wanted to add A Vautour to my collection for some time, but I don't like the thin-nose version and that's all I've run across lately. Someday...

Greg (@gkittinger) as Spiros has pointed you towards Azur, I believe thy are re-packed by Special Hobby (specialhobby.eu) and on their site there are two available, one with the pointed radar and one standard. The price is the same even though the pointy nosed has a lot of resin extras. Hope you may have the time to squeeze one in with your (49?) Phantoms. Someday 🙂

Revisiting!

Tonight I gave my poor Vautour some attention, hoping to ccatch up with it full steam ahead not far from now..

The bicycle type front and rear wheel bays were two gorgeous resin pieces that had been affixed with cyano and some reinforcements from the inside, après- fuselage closure...

Well, the joints proved not that strong and, after a couple of mishandles (my younger son's Vne proof tests...) they detached...

The good thing is that I found out before proceeding further with the model; I don't think they would withstand the not that small pressure from the landing gear, upon installation. The bad thing was that the fuselage was already closed, so I seemed to have no means of pressing the bays onto the fuselage, in order to be glued.

What I did, was to first apply thick cyano around the joint area, then a coating of liquefied styrene ONTO the cyano, then, carefully, by using my bent tweezers as a sort of "hook", I pulled the bays onto their attachment points, the cyano/lqs mixture oozing out of the gaps. This mixture, upon curing, formed a kind of strong bond between the resin bays and the stryrene fuselage. Here's how the bays look:

Now all they need is a good cleanup and microfilling all gaps.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks my friend @michel-verschuere!

Spiros, @fiveten
I am happy to see you are finishing this one... as our friends have stated, I too have enjoyed watching this model come to life in front of our very own eyes. Keep it coming my friend.