I got back to the MiG sooner than anticipated as because the decals on the 190 had to be done in work-and-let-dry sessions, so back to Mother Russia for a spell ...
This morning I added a brace inside the fuselage so the lower wing assembly would fit flush and super-glued all 14 control surface hinges into the lower wing. If you're careful, you can get all of them working well beyond MiG's intended limit! All this needed to dry for a while so I then went back to decaling the other bird...
After finishing the Butcher Bird's decals and mowing the yard, I got back to work and have been gotten a lot accomplished... I scratched up some cosmetic pieces to cover up things I didn't like, such as an unsightly hole behind the pilot's seat. I had thought that there might be a kit part for that location, but alas not. It's just a ugly hole. Using an FSM tip, I cut up an aluminum can with scissors and fashioned rivets using a sharp pointy probe. Superglued that into place and nevermind the double-tap in the upper-right corner... the rear canopy section should minimize that nicely.
Next up was the three MG's.. The kit parts are pretty featureless and I had a better idea. I cut 1" lengths of some 1/16" aluminum rods and then drilled out the cowling to accept them. They are way out of scale for MG's, but I think that they will look better then even drilling out the originals. If not, well then lesson learned.
To wrap up the day's events, I glued the lower wing into place and the brace I added working perfectly in it's intended role. The scallop-shaped indentation and the puttied area will be covered by the radiator scoop, so clean up here will be easy. The rear wings fit really well and were glued in, as were the various cowling panels. Bits of tape to hold alignment was used and I think that it's starting to look like an airplane.. all that's really left to assemble is the undercarriage and underwing stores. Possibyl some minor cosmetics in the wheel wells and that should do it for the easy part.
Green or Snow-White? Hmm..