A month since my first update already... Way too much lazing, not nearly enough modeling.
Well, at least I've gotten
something done.
Wings together. For some inexplicable reason the upper wing halves had some panel lines on the leading edge that weren't present on the lower halves, and vice versa. Not a big deal to scribe the missing lines, but still something I wish the designers had bothered checking before the molds were made. The outboard oil fill ports were missing, so I scribed those in (pointed by arrows in pic).
I'm thinking I probably want to add some rivet detail to the model, but I'm not 100% sure yet of what extent I want to go with.
Engine nacelles assembled. Due to the nature of injection molding, the recessed detail on the sides near the edges of the nacelle halves had gotten shallow and indistinct, and needed rescribing to sharpen and deepen them. The circular detail (inspection hatch perhaps?) on top of the cowling behind the cowl flaps was represented as a raised circle, and suffered from being on the side of the molding, like the recessed details. Instead of trying to replicate the raised detailed, I followed the example of the Hasegawa kit I also have, and scribed them in instead using a circle template.
The tail landing gear bays were devoid of detail, so I added some with stretched sprue and styrene strip. The kit's instructions want the rear landing gear to be attached at the same time the fuselage halves are joined, but being a little wary of adding such rather delicate parts at such an early stage, I glued pieces of L-profile styrene strip behind the rear support locator holes so I could get it glued in place easier with the fuselage already together.
Now I'm contemplating extending that detailing past the bulkhead and adding some detail to the bulkhead as well.
Next I think I should really focus on the cockpit and try to get this build going again.
