Thanks everyone. The below photos summarize my week's dabblings. Work on the wheel wells continued with installation of more bulkhead ribs. using plastic card. The riveted strips are aluminum tape embossed from behind using a riveting wheel.
In this pic of the two opposite halves, more detail can be seen added, including the linkage that opened the main gear doors. I decided that the hydraulic jack that did the actual opening would be practically hidden so did not bother making it.
Now painted with silver and gold mix. The rearward areas that are more in shadow have been painted black to enhance the effect.
Now, as to the retraction fork, more parts were added to create the space frame that this thing actually was. The apex of the frame picked up the linkage to a crank on the main gear strut that caused the gear to rotate through 90 degrees as it retracted.
Here is the fork and associated linkages installed. Also installed in behind all this were the retraction jack whose arm goes vertically up to the top of the engine cowl and a second, thinner rod whose function I don't know. The latter can just be discerned in the below pics. I'll need to tak some other shots to show how jam-packed all this stuff is.
Next it was on to address the fuselage seams and all the extra scribing of the details along the spine that are missing. I started by penciling a line down the center of the fuselage to guide the scribing.
After scribing an cleaning all of the hatches and ports, I applied a coat of primer to check for imperfections.
And that brings you up to date. Things should move a bit quicker now that I'm "out of the hole". Talk to you later.