Mike, great job on White Y.
That paintwork looks stunning.
Ritchie, nice save on the masking problem.
The build looks spot on.
Despite my absence, work has been a bit full on for the last month or 4, I have made some progress on the big 262.
Looking like the real deal, a patchwork of primer and filler.
The cannon bay doors didn't fit too well. Not surprising really as they are intended to be left open, and took a bit of filler.
As did the radio hatch panel. Still nothing a few coats of Mr Surfacer won't sort out.
Having spent some time looking at photos of a number of real 262s I came to the conclusion that there should be a raised area in front of the cockpit where the panel is lapped on to the panels beneath, and the same on the nose over the central gun ports.
I therefore masked each area off with Tamiya tape, and then applied a couple of coats of Mr Surfacer.
Did the same on the underside for the front and rear wing fillet panels.
Meant to take some photos of the effect after, but completely forgot, but here's a photo of the underside after I added some of the bolts which had been sanded off.
And that is it, I'm almost ready to apply some paint!
Karl