Scratch built the dash-board from sprue - not too bad but overly fiddly and not that great in camera close-up
Machine gun cocking lever detail made from brass parts from an old photo-etch set and hollowed out the exhaust pipe end with a tiny drill bit
The lozenge camouflage paint nightmare!
Painstaking painting of each lozenge square by hand - thankfully the kit has a complete decal with all the lozenge shapes on a black & white outline.
Stretched sprue for the rudder and elevator control rods/ cable
Aileron control rod detail made from cut sprue and stretched sprue
Since the struts were way too thick for an accurate scale model, I carefully sanded each one down by 50% in thickness making sure not to snap them (which I did once!)
Finished rudder and elevator control cable/ rods
Contact..!
Wow! I never thought I would see that kit completed the way it was supposed to be. You did a wonderful job on such a plastic dinosaur. My respect, sir.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks @Lentorpe! Its an oldie but goodie!
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