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black at the end of the build.

After painting their inside

surfaces white, the engine nacelles

were built up and fitted to the

wing. Care needs to be taken to

get the vertical alignment right,

even at the expense of leaving

gaps between nacelle and wing;

in this scale these are easy

enough to fill after the event.

The fronts of the nacelles have

open intakes for the engines

and oil coolers but they

end up looking a bit

see-through. I fixed this

by adding a short length

of blanked-off tube behind

the main intake, drilling it

out, and painting the interior

black; probably wasted effort when

you consider that the propellers

will mask most of it, but still...

The built-up wing fits

reasonably well to the fuselage, but

there’s a need for some filler at the

leading and trailing edge joints,

so out comes the plastic putty.

To simplify final painting,

before assembling the empennage

I primed and painted the tips of

the four fins with Tamiya XF-

Hull Red, masked them, and used

Tamiya XF-85 Rubber Black to

paint the de-icer boots on the

fins and the tailplane. These

parts can then be assembled and

added to the fuselage, making

A small amount of filler

is needed around the

rotodome pylon legs

The simple cockpit. Some

significant weight is needed

to make sure the model isn’t

a tail sitter

The cockpit

glazing needs

some blending in

“THIS IS A NICELY-MADE, EASY TO

BUILD KIT WHICH DOESN’T SHOW

IT’S 12 YEARS AT ALL BADLY”

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