Thanks again gentlemen.
Man, this one is trying really hard to prevent me from finishing. After breaking of the SN-2 antennae twice as previously reported, while working on some fine details at lunch time today, I broke my magnifier light - cracked the crappy white metal casting at the hinge. I tried to fix it tonight but in doing so, the magnifying galss fell out of the mounting and smashed to bits on the floor, so now I binned the whole contraption and need to get a new one tomorrow. Then, while trying to fix a sag in one of the antenna wires that I discovered after it was glued, I broke the wire at the rudder end and had to try to re-install it without the magnifier. Broke it twice more.
so I've set it aside for tonight. As it stands now, I'm putting the final touches on the hinged canopy (pics tomorrow) and will hopefully get the aerial fixed to give you the finshed pics tomorrow. Everything else is done.
Here's what I did in the wheel well. There's a rod connecting the two gear doors that looks like it served to pull the doors shut as the main gear struts caught it during retraction (see actual pic below at right). There are springs on each end where it attaches to the doors
I made these struts using stretched sprue with a piece of Tamiya Tape rolled onto each end and CA glued tight.
These were then glued to the doors and painted RLM 02. This is the final step in of detailing the main gear wells.
Here's the finished rear antenna mount, having been primed and painted today.
Hopefully, I'll have her all done tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!