PVA ('White glue' used for wood working) carefully applied with a toothpick should fill that canopy gap nicely. Dries clear, so will just need touching up with the desert yellow.
Technical point, but the inner gear doors should be down when the undercarriage is lowered too, btw.
Wow Keith! I can see a very noticeable improvement mate, that looks very good. Can't spot any missed bit though, unless it's the prop pitch hubs, which look silver in the pics, but could be bare plastic?
You got me Keith! Didn't notice the elevator trim tabs weren't painted!
About the inner gear doors, I stand corrected! (sorry about that!) The closed position is correct for the Fw 190A-3 and A-4. They remained open on the A-6.
Not dumb at all mate! The trim tabs are small extensions to the flying surfaces that help fine-adjust ('trim') an aircraft's flight stability. Some are fixed at the required angle, others are adjustable...
Flyboy J or some of the other guys can explain it better if you want a more detailed account of the function and use - compared to their knowledge and experience I feel pretty 'dumb' myself !!!
Or keith, you can save the "leg shaking" by trying to get the tape right nad just paint your canopy with acrylics then use a toothpick to scrape off any excess that goes outside the lines. I used this technique on my p61, I think it came out rather well... Also, if you get a plastic "gap" from manufacturer error (Canopy doesnt touch the frame of the cockpit and such), you use elmers school glue (PVA) and brush it into the crack then wipe away the excess and let dry then paint, also did this on the p61 canopy as there were many gaps.
..Um, me again Keith... I asked Wojtek (Wurger) if he could confirm or deny what I said about those doors -I'm wrong again!!!
In all my photos the doors appear as mentioned - all A-3 and 4 retracted, A-6 open, so I presumed (always dangerous...) that this was the norm. Wojtek mentioned however that they were able to be set to either position according to will, regardless of variant...
looking good.. but i see what you missed to paint..the exshaust cover..that is always in a differnt colour as its heatresistant steel
but you are doing great i love the A3 been working one one for many years but that is a few scale bigger than yours
keep up the good work and always nice to see a black 3 ( ours is also black 3 )