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Not doing any more to the canopy, there are a couple of places that need a little more work but that is essentially it! Touch-ups, paint-wise have started with the Dark Sea Grey, the Dark Green will be done early tomorrow and the Light Aircraft Grey soon afterwards as the engines will need to be glued in place first. The wheels are on the undercarriage legs now, fitting them will be fun It might be close but I believe that it will be presentable by the end of Friday in time for the Scottish Nationals. Gondor

Hope you don't mind if I post a single pic of each as motivation/inspiration All three are brush painted and the lighting in the photographs was terrible, more so in some than others. Gondor

I've built three so far, each a pain in the @$$ to get the cockpit to fit. Tungsten Putty sounds like a plan. Gondor

The link I posted shows both sets by Air Graphics. The engines are out of stock at the moment though. The only other option I know for engines you will have to be extremely lucky to find as they are M&E Models and are as easy to find as hens teeth Gondor

Here you go https://air-graphics.uk/shop/ols/search?keywords=Jetstream&sortOption=descend_by_match Gondor

This evenings update This morning the seats went inside, two-part Epoxy was used to be on the safe side, and the same adhesive was used to fix the canopy in place. The intent was to use the longer drying time to enable adjustment of the canopy placement if required. Leaving the glue to cure, I finished painting the tyres and fitted then later painted, the scissor link for the main undercarriage that was missing from my early production kit. It's not perfect, but over 90% of it will be hidden and most people will not be looking at it anyway. Next up has been the masking of the windows followed by adding filler to the joint between the canopy and the fuselage. And that's where I am at the moment. I am leaving the filler to fully cure overnight and in the morning some judicious sanding and filing will take place. Gondor

A few more pictures today. First up is the Navigators seat And the Pilots seat I am calling them done as time is a bit tight to do anything else really. Both the side handle and the crotch handle were solid so I have had fun and games keeping them mostly intact while opening them up, and I deliberately took some of the pictures so you could see the background through the side handles. Quite chuffed with them though they could have been better if I had more time. I have Alistairs 1/72 Buccaneer seats for another build so I look forward to what I can do with them. And here is another comparison shot for people Gondor

It's that Martians fault. If he says something silly he should expect something daft in return! Gondor

Dipping in and out of here today. Been doing lots of little bits of painting on the seats. The only problem is that I only have two decent 10/0 paint brushes at the moment and they are taking longer to dry than the paint! At least there is not much more to do paint-wise to the seats, buckles and stripes, then a go with the Scottish Paint, otherwise known as the Black Wash!* Talking about dipping, the canopy had a dunk in some Kleer That's it sitting drying on some kitchen paper on the kitchen windowsill. I am thinking that I should get a replacement for my bottle of Kleer as it's getting rather long in the tooth and I am getting dubious about its abilities. Suggestions are most welcome. Gondor * Black Wash joke was stolen from a thread on Britmodeller

That looks like an upside-down section of rollercoaster! So many Struts! Gobsmackingly fantastic work though. Gondor

I'm about to get tyred I had a thought originally about painting one side of each tyre and then the other when that was dry. But how to hold each when I was painting them? So I came up with what you see above. Unfortunately, I only had the one piece of tubing that could hold a main wheel, the second one will have to wait until tomorrow. All the surfaces other than the pliers have Gator Grip applied to their surfaces to hold the tyres in place. I'm hoping this does the trick 😕 Gondor

What did I do? I'm not even following this thread! Gondor the innocent

Well what do you expect asking a silly question like that? Gondor

Following this with interest. Gondor

No Chance! Gondor