Good evening fellow modellers,
January is a good month to start by cleaning up shelf of doom This time, I've decided to build a Revell offering to test some of new techniques (and some patience).
Despite the age, kit can be assembled with relative ease and leaves a lot of room for scratchbuilding.
Both halves come together quite nicely, with very little sanding:
Using excellent WNW reference, I've decided to build Rudolph Berthold's aircraft, though kits representation is not early type Rudolph reportedly flew.
I've decided not to modify it, since I'd lose canvas representation on both sides of fuselage. As per reference, blue color was applied with slight opacity:
Decaling phase, decals are actually quite nice and react well to solvents:
Upper wing was then fitted and fixed in place:
And a view from side, showing working area in all of its messy glory:
That's all for now, enjoy