This should by my final update for building. Just waiting for tomorrow to get some daylight shots for the completed photos. So here are last bit details done over the weekend.
A new pitot tube was required - lost the original when the paint was stripped. Old Airwaves set to the rescue. At the top end I left the tab from the attachement point on the PE fret and glue a section of 1.0mm hollow brass tube for better adhesion to the wing. The whole thing is flat so I cut off the bottom and attached a hollow 0.3mm tube.
For the scuffing on the wing roots I used a light grey pencil crayon followed by a few areas with a silver pencil.
I was able to drill out a hole in the antenna to pass some light weight EZ line through. Actually the hole was a bit off center so the bit came through on one side which made it easier to attach the line. Just had to hook it in place instead of trying to pass it through the hole.
For the patches on the gun ports my plan was to mimic this photo:
Originally was going to use some kind of cellophane sprayed with the appropriate colour but I wasn't able to tear them up to look like in the photos. The paint would flake off and they also did not stick well. Tried paper but looked out of scale and tearing the centers out just made a fuzzy mess.
So just painted portions of red on and scraped with the exacto blade to get some sharper looking tears. Added a bit of thin grey lines to represent the frayed edges of the patches.
regards,
Jack