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Decided it was time to build a couple of Castaldi's Macchi C202 fighters from the enduring Hasegawa twin boxing. Cleaned up the only "detail" on the cockpit walls. Small white ring is a slice off a cotton tip, to become a trim wheel. Added ribs and bits to make peering through the canopy a little bit interesting. While preparing to join the fuselage halves, disaster struck when I picked up the Tamiya cement only to have the (not properly tightened) lid in my hand and the full jar fall to the table and splash in my lap, on my head, and a tiny spot in my eye. None landed on my model. Phew !!! After rinsing my pants and showering to wash glue off me, I head back to the workshop to find this...... .......the glue slick had used gravity to seek out the fuselage and make a mess of it. So I grabbed the starboard fuselage from the second kit, made some new ribs and translated the detail bits from the destroyed half. Buttoned up without the drama. Opened up the exhaust manifold covers. Shown with its melted sibling. I had seen a few photos that showed the engine cover sitting slightly higher at the rear. I added some thin styrene at the base to try and emulate this. I wouldn't do this again as the scale doesn't really warrant it. Guess who doesn't know when to put the styrene away. Filled in the awful gaps, but decided against trying to detail the gear bays. Now that I have lots of spare Macchi parts I thought I may be able to use some on this......... While the HobbyBoss C200 has a good outline and acceptable surface detail, the cockpit is a bad seat and the wings are of equal length (which we all know is wrong....right?) Used the spare Hasegawa cockpit parts and joined the fuselage and wings. A butterfly for the C202 intake. Plus some pointless pre-shading (as I usually lose it under the top coats). Scratched internal radiator parts for C202 and added grooves to the oil cooler around the cowling on the C200. More to come.
