Thanks fellas. Today I dipped the clear parts into Future and while these was were drying, I attened to somne other work.
Few of my models get built without suffering mishaps. This time it was the prop assembly, shown in the last series of pics. Today while working on installing the cannon tube, I dropped the assembly and chipped the tip off one of the propeller blades. I've done this before to a resin prop and did not succeed in fixing it as the glue did not hold but today I managed the repair. The following pics show the piece of card I CA-glued to the broken tip and the end result, after sanding, blending, breaking it once again and finally getting it done with acceptable results. The macro lens shows that something happened here but the naked eye won't detect it.
This particular ICM casting seems to have been done with dirty molds as there was some very noticeable pitting along the port wing. The below pic shows the pits filled with primer and sanded over. This type of work registers little in terms of progress but is necessary ot get a clean model.
Finally, the landing gear struts were also completed and the finished results are shown below. Two types of wire make up the brake lines, the silver one being stainless steel and the black one, simulating the rubber flex hose, being coated copper wire. The straps are made of aluminum tape which does a nice job of this type of detail.
Once again, thanks for continuing to check out this build. Tomorrow I should get the yellow theatre markings on.