ive made steady progress over the week, and generally things have gone okay with one glaring exception. I put the forequarter clearglass panes in, and rather too much glue on the joint and have caused one of the panes to frost up somewhat. I'm very frustrated with myself.
Apart from that slip up, which is a whopper, things are going pretty well. ive touched up and just about finished the main painting, put together the rotor assembly, painted the side doors and fixed the error I made with the engine inspection hatches.
ive discovered that the painting instructions for the rotor and tail are slightly incorrect
The following is an image os how the finished paint scheme should look like
You can see in the area around the main rotorit is painted white. the kit instruction say it should be black, but clearly is in error. the painting instructions also say the tail rotor should be all white, but again there are clearly visible red flashes on the tail rotor
The tail 'hook" (I don't actually know what it is), appears metallic. There are also sqn flashes on the pilots doors 9which I don't have). not visible are the screen wipers. I rhought they would be chrome, but they are black actually
That dirty great big grill just aft the main rotaor is not included in the kit detail....bit of a problem, not sure what to do about that. The grill, whatever it is was in place since at least 1970 as the following shot shows: