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Thanks! Almost done. Final bits and bobs. Drilled the holes in the canopy that were actually not holes but containers filled with silica squeezed between the double layered glass to prevent fogging. (You were right Cees ) I did not drill the holes all the way through, but halfway. This comes closest to looking like the real thing. Added latches to the nose cowling: Adding loose brake lines to the gear: (made them from lead wired, wrapped with thin strips of masking tape)

Looking forward to this!

Hope to see you tomorrow at the Flanders show Danny!

Did you place those roundels only to determine the location?

Geez.... that's cool!

Well there is something you don't see every day!! A great depiction of 'what could have been'. Like this a lot.

Very cool. Thank you for sharing!!

Eh... wow.. Not such a fan of blowtorches myself, but this is awesome! Love the mottled effect..

Great safe with the styrene! Verlinden is hit and miss in my experience...

Impressive dose of After Market for an already pretty darn good kit! Looking forward to this..

Nice!! And I see masks too!

With the help of Rick Kranias (who went to great length and the NASM museum) to find out what the top of the wings look like today and Levier (Brian Silcox) who shared valuable photo's with me. Rick pointed me to the Valiant Wings book on the Ta152. I went to the LHS where they happened to have it in stock, but sadly only pics of the undersides. Anyhoo.... This is where I'm at. Interpreting old photo's and using common sense. Ah... and that one dusty photo from the concept notes book... Not done yet, but it's getting there.

I'm sure that if you asked Cees it would be a Bloody Paraliser. HP-400

Loving it. You can be proud. Nice and grimey. Just the way i like it.

Nice!!

Wow....... i need to get me one of these..

Oh wow... Lovely finish and great work on the marsden matting too. Thnx for sharing!

Exactly! Working on that now

Our very own Rick is volunteer there and went the extra mile by requesting a view behind the scenes. I'd love to go there one day...

I thought you made that pic just for me and we had a special moment....

So! On with the wings. Rick was a great pal and headed over to the NASM to see what he could do for me. As you may know: I was struggling to find intel on the upper side of the wings in current state. Asked everyone. Including Jerry Crandall and Radu Brinzan. Seems little to no photo's were ever taken of them. Rick came far but couldn't get to the wings or find photo's in the NASM library. Asked people that are involved in the restoration, but alas... The only photo he could find turned out to be in the SWS Concept Notes. One Zoukei Mura minion climbed up a ladder and managed to squeeze one of! Sadly the wings are covered in dust: so bad you can't even see markings or camo. I'm trying to go for the really faded look and.. well.. here's a peek of where I'm at. Much more layers to follow. I did find one small B/W photo that shows the top wing balkenkreuz is the black and white kind. That helps.. Thanks Rick!! The Concept Note pic:

Wow.... I think i have one in the stash.... Thnx for sharing!

Good progress! And smooth airbrushing. How is the thinning of the paint with those Revell colours?

Wow... What are the dimensions?