Hi guys. A bit of progress to report from Friday.
The prop has been painted and decaled. Leading edge chips on the blades were done with with small dabs of Testors gold to represent the brass wear plates at that location.
I did not use the five "Locked-Unlocked" stencils for the Amal fasteners that connect the spinner to the back plate as I think that Airfix got these wrong. First of all, Airfix include only 5 such decals and they seem quite large at that (see below). Reference pictures seem to indicate that there are 10 such points, not 5, with two between each prop blade. Secondly, the two words should be on either side of the fastener holes which in most photos are quite visible. Airfix do not include any representation of the fasteners holes which, if I were to add them, would appear as black dots or, if I'm ambitious, drilled holes. So far, I have left the stencils off because of this, reasoning also that, since the spinner was painted yellow (apparently), the stencils may have been painted over and not reapplied.
Moving over the the underside, another omission by Airfix is the panel and part for the IFF spike antenna on the starboard wing. Below are before and after pics showing how I scribed the panel and added the spike from stretched sprue. It's not yet been painted.
That's all for now. Thanks again for looking in.
EDIT: Looking ahead, I've also been able to confirm via a colleague at Britmodeler, who has the previously mentioned 2nd TAF book that includes a photo of Lazy Lady V, that the fish tail exhausts recommended for this option by Airfix are also incorrect and that, rather, the straight round stubs were featured on this aircraft. I twigged to this when I noticed the round stubs on NH903 in the photo I posted earlier and, since this aircraft was just one unit behind mine on the production line, it made no sense that NH902 would have fish tails. This is good news because it makes drilling them out much easier! Here's a detail of the pic, posted with Chris Thomas' permision: