I made a little more progress on this one the last few days. I apologize in advance for the blurriness of some of the photos.
Now that the colors were acceptable its time to work on some of the small stuff. I started with the collaborator intakes. As I said before and I think I showed you the intakes on the real aircraft are longer then the ones supplied by Airfix. Not that big deal.
The make the modifications I pulled some Evergreen styrene form my stock (Love this stuff
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Next I applied some Mr Surfacer 500 and let it dry. After that I did some preliminary sanding and reapplied some Mr Surface 500. This happened 3 times. The last time I applied Mr Surfacer 1000. We'll get back to these after they dry.
Next I dry-fitted the cockpit canopy.
I'll worry about this later. I want to get it masked and painted first. I feel that will be easier then with it attached to the aircraft.
Now I noticed that the American birds they didn't use the rear gunner. That's all well and good but this kit came with one canopy with a cut out for the rear gunners. No big deal with my best friend Micro Kristal Clear.
Now I've run into another problem which I hope I can over come with relative ease. It seems the dry transfers I was going to use for the names "Fluff, Patsy, and Amby" are too big. I will have to see if I can find some smaller transfers or else.... I might have to change the aircraft I'm doing.
Till next time thanks for looking.