Didn't bother with weathering. Just a little exhaust stains with brown and black acrylics, then model master dullcote. A few more shots:

That's all, folks! Thanks for looking. Any critique is welcome.

Done. Here's how it looks:

Indeed! It looks really good!  :)

Looking really good!

Mike

A few shots after everything is glued together:

After the photos, I sprayed tamiya x-22. Decals will follow tomorrow.

Wing walks masked:

Kleinigkeiten altogether:

PM did not care to drill holes for undercarriage leg supports, so I had to do it myself:

Great job on a challenging kit, Clausewitz!

Yeah, the invasion stripes turned out fantastic. Great job all around.

As much as you may dread them your invasion stripes look great.

Groot

I built that kit once. It was very inexpensive. I spent a lot of time sanding the parts.

Nice work on that kit !

I wondered what the kit looked like.

Nice work!

Edgar

They're access panels to the wing folding hydraulic cylinder.

So, now we're here:

Spinner and undercarriage legs already painted. Maybe I'll add brake hydraulic lines, and we're done.

Then came the dreadful black/white recognition stripes. I chose one of two ways. Black over white would be easier to paint, but three parallel stripe masks of equal width looked more difficult.

Fortunately, nowhere leaked when all was done. But I haven't been careful enough while unmasking and fingered a few fresh painted points, had to fix them and caused further damage while doing that etc. Stripes caused me a lot of trouble, but still, it's better than decals.

They're access panels to the wing folding hydraulic cylinder.

Preshading.

I read somewhere that wheel wells were cobalt yellow, not interior green, so I found Tamiya yellow green to be ugly enough and used it.

Main colours. Dark color is Gunze 333. I didn't have the specified sky blue in stash, so I mixed remains of an old RLM 65 with some white and added a little light grey. Seemed fine to me.

I had made the fuel tanks two years ago, and sanded them smooth. Well, that came out to be wrong, so I added 0.20 mm fishing line with Tamiya green glue. 

So I primed with Tamiya, checked for faulty spots, tried to fix them, and looped. 

I gave it an overall sanding, too, to even up the deepness of lines, but that was in vain.

Anyway, wingtip lights out of stretched clear sprue followed. 

Well, I thought these red-circled thingies here...

...were landing lights as in modern jets. After all was done, I noticed that I haven't seen anything like that in any photos. Well, the guy who flew this must have been a redneck