Thanks Hugh. As promised, more pics follow. The sharp-eyed among you may notice a small black crescent in the pics and this is a spot of dirt on the lens, not a defect on the model.
The decals are essentially done with the exception of ones that need to go onto areas that I've not yet painted, like the trim tabs. The model looked like this at the start of the evening's work:
As I said earlier, the lines defining the walk limits on the wings went on well. The Eaglecals are reasonably thin and yet strong.
Here is some of the stenciling around the pit area.
Time to mask and paint a few areas that I should have done earlier. The panel that fits over the exhaust stubs was painted black on most Ta 152s so I carefully masked and painted both sides, being careful not to get tape onto the decals.
You can see in this pic the fine sanding I've done on the seam that was showing and this has since been recoated with Future and looks good now.
The trim tabs were then masked and painted red. There was a bit of conjecture involved in my decision making here. First off, I decided to leave the rudder trim tab in 76, my demented logic being that the WNr patches suggest a post-factory painting of the tail unit. Unfortunately, none of the pics of White 7 show the rudder tab so I can't confirm whether it as painted or not. I saw no reason that the elevator tabs would not be painted so I did those. The aileron tabs are another story. There is a 4-view drawing of an H-0 in Hitchcock's book showing the underside of the aileron tabs to be red but not the upper side. Some photos support the idea of red on the underside as the tabs look distinctly darker but I could find no evidence of the red uppers in photos, so I decided to go with what Hitchcock shows and only do the bottoms.
I masked the tabs and applied a coat of white, followed by red and then peeled off the masks.
The model has now been spritzed with a top coat of Future to seal the decals and to lay down a gloss coat for the trim tab stencils. I'll let the thing sit for a day before doing any more on it so I'll be back in a couple.