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This should really be in a KUTA build but I missed the last one and the next one will be outside my airbrushing window. This is where I left it when I withdrew from the Battle of Britain GB having run out of time. I have now glued the rest of the Barracuda oil cooler and radiator and the carburettor intake in place and given the wing underside a coat of primer. You may remember that I attempted some of the panel lapping on the rear fuselage by spraying primer on selected areas. This proved not entirely successful and some of the panel edges are a little ' soft ' due to the fact that I used normal masking tape rather than something harder like Dymo tape, note to self for future reference. After cleaning up the the panels I re-scribed the fuselage and marked the lines with a pencil so that they would be more visible in any photos, then set about putting some rivets on the wing root fillet. The kit plastic is very hard and my RB scribing wheel made no impression at all so I tried a pounce wheel which is much more robust, but the effect wasn't much better so I think I will leave it with just the scribed panel lines. The fuselage and wings were finally joined but when I removed the rubber band around the fuselage the lower rear part sprung open so I will close this again with copious amounts of superglue at a later stage. Normally I would leave the cockpit entry door open but the aircraft I am depicting ( N3093 "QJ A" 616 sqdn as flown by Dennis Gillam ) has an emblem on the cockpit door so this will be closed and I have used one from the Tamia kit after carving off the crowbar as it has better detail. I am now waiting for some warmer, dryer weather so that I can finish spraying the primer and then get to grips with the HGW positive rivets on the rear fuselage. Thanks for looking, feel free to comment. Cheers John
