Jan knows a place where there's plenty of crumpet....oops! Wrong sort though!
Anyway, here we go, nearing the end.
The gunsight has been fitted, painted and glazed, and the windshield and canopy trimmed, thinned, and the frames painted, although they are yet to be fitted. The inner wheel bay doors have been filed and sanded to the correct shape, their edges chamfered and fitted in place, along with scratch-built retraction jacks. The small, outer auxiliary doors provided in the kit were way too thick, scaling out at around 5 inch thickness, so these have been replaced with plastic card items.
The landing gear legs and doors have been fitted, the resin wheels painted and fitted and a new pitot head made and fitted, and again, this has yet to be painted. Also, the wing landing lights have yet to be glazed.
All that remains now is a little detail painting, the addition of scratch-built items such as the retractable boarding step and the antennas, and the fitting of the canopy, windshield and prop. Then, after adding a little more dirt and some light staining, the Tempest will be finished!