Progress
The airframe is basically finished. A combination of Airfix's modular construction, good fit (although see below) and paint drying extremely quickly in this heat has meant that progress has been rapid, at least by my standards, Dizzy wouldn't necessarily agree
Should be able to start on the camouflage scheme tomorrow providing it's a little bit cooler.
This is my second build of this new tool Airfix kit and in a strange way I'm glad to say I had exactly the same area's requiring p.s.r. as in my first build of it. Why am I glad ? Well it means it's the kit and not me (probably anyway). There are two area's on the top of the fuselage and one on the lower that need the tiniest bit of p.s.r . The lower and one of the upper area problems are caused by sprue location marks, but the one on the nose isn't. There is an issue with the moulding. As said it is absolutely minor and a couple of strips of tape (to keep the green stuff actually needing sanding to a minimum) and some quick sanding and they are fixed. Meanwhile the wing fuselage and tail plane to fuselage fit is brilliant.
There are 3 sprues in this kit and they could have almost been tooled by 2 different people ? The sprue gates on one sprue are thicker and far more inconveniently placed then on the other 2 for instance and the detail on some parts is softer than on others. The wheel hub detail for example is quite hard to pick out when painting it, whereas on other recent Airfix kits it's brilliant. So a bit of a curate's egg, but still a decent kit.
