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the five-piece nacelles is built up

separately and fitted to the wing,

and the under-wing radiators

are also added at this stage.

I wanted to show the cockpit

glazing open so I went ahead

and masked everything, but only

attached the fixed elements, closing

off the resulting apertures with

pieces of foam. There are a couple

of optional parts for the canopy,

depending on the specific scheme

you are modelling (with around

54 individual panels, Eduard’s

mask set has to be worth the

profiPack uplift all on its own!)

Logically, Eduard’s instructions

would have you fix the nose aerials

right at the end of the build process,

after all the other appendages.

Like many people, I routinely leave

such delicate bits off until after

the bulk of the painting, but in this

case, concerned about potential

damage to the nose paintwork, I

decided to add the main structural

members of the aerials at this

stage, leaving the more fragile

antennae themselves until the end.

The photo-etch template

folds up into a tidy open cube,

with tabs secured with a drop of

cyanoacrylate. A pair of leaves at

each side of the front concertinas

to form ledges, which will set the

aerial arms at the right angle.

The arms are taped lightly to

the template and the whole lot

offered up to the nose to locate the

contoured mounting faces before

glueing them into position.

COLOURS

Painting is potentially

straightforward. None of

the schemes are particularly

complicated; on the face of it

some subtle mottling is the most

significant challenge. Mostly

single-colour airframes can look a

bit bland, however, so to start the

ball rolling, I undertook my usual

pre-shading with Tamiya XF-

Grey on the undersides, and XF-

Black on the upper surfaces of the

wings, tail, and fuselage where the

RLM 75 Grey would have been used.

I sprayed the RLM 75 patchily

using Mr. Hobby H69, masking a

hard line along the upper fuselage

to allow this demarcation to show

through the subsequent overspray

of RLM 76. I deliberately left

the RLM 75 short of some of the

pre-shading. The Halfords grey

Eduard’s masks prove their worth in preparing the 54 individual

The wing root to fuselage joint is a superb fit, needing no filler at all panes

The cleaned-up Hirschgeweih (Stags Antlers) aerials are taped

to the brass template, steps on the latter cleverly ensuring the

correct angle. The whole lot is offered up to the nose, where

drops of cyanoacrylate can be used to fix them

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