Thanks all for the great comments
Just a small update today, the next couple days I'll be tackling super glueing the gear (I tried to reg. glue the landing gear, but no go, it keeps falling off)
Lightly weathers the landing gear covers, since it was freshly painted by the Japanese this I-16 wouldn't have seen near as much dirt and grime as the other captured aircraft.
Used just a bit of led pencil to circle the bolts on the covers and a tad here and there with diluted grey green/black mix, diluted with water and thiner then applied in a dry brush fashion around the interior of the covers.
Finally, cut the exhaust back to look like most of the other refrence photos I gathered of the I-16, I was using a Russian I-16 that had the exhaust really long and I ended up glueing it too far out when I did the model, so I cut it back with the X-acto and glued them in the proper positions. Paint chiping isn't a worry since she has a lot of exhaust staining and it'll cover well
Little bit of work on the landing gear and tire.
thats it for now, when I get the gears up and running I'll post again
Thanks for watching all, btw shes looking might fine with decals on, but thats next time's update