Pushed ahead with this nicely today. As said above, I want to display the engine but still want to have some of the panels attached the the air frame, particularly the cowling around the air cooler intake. The kit does not provide for this aspect so, its to the butchers cleaver for a spot of surgery.
These are all the parts around the engine.
The red arrows indicate panel lines where I will cut through the plastic and the blue arrow is where the exhaust would fit, so this has to be opened as well.
Next are the louvers behind the air cooler intake, I want these open and in my enthusiasm, I'd already chopped these out, so what you see is the kit part provided for open louvers that I'm not using.
In order to make this modification as realistic as possible I want the rear of the air cooler intake as accurate as possible. This part (red arrows), in order to make it fit within the cowling needs quite a bit of adjustment, but I can't attempt this until the air cooler intake is assembled.
All the parts from the surgery ready for action.
I noticed these little dimple impressions (blue arrows) and believe they would be simple air-intakes of some kind and need opening up, would this be the case. The red arrow folks is to show where I have placed a little bit of mesh over the grill. I had to do it in situ as the part (that was mesh free, it was not even mouled) when test fitted was locked in place, I just could not get it out.
Another look at that little bit of mesh, just in case your not believing the last pic.
Well enough from me today folks, hope you're all having a good one or hoping for a good one.