Well, this is a re-run of a number of previously-learned lessons – how to mask, how to hold, how to finish. As I have made the mistakes that lead to wisdom before, I need not make them now.
But I will…
However, here’s the internal structure that I mentioned in the last post. That’s so nice that you really want to show it off – not at the price of an aftermarket engine, but. It would take a Rolls Royce Nene 10 or a J-33 to fill the hole. If you bought the kit as the Japanese version made by Platz, you got the donk to go inside.
Not discouraged – the cockpit looked gorgeous. Plenty of nose space for a lead slug.
And the tail and pipe went on perfectly first time on the jig. More Platz models, please…
The rat-on-a-stick approach to painting worked well as this was a multi-mask model.
The orange is fluorescent over white base. This duplicates the current scheme for 621 on the show circuit.
That’s cheap Bunnings tape, by the way. Expensive strips for edges and then the Bear brand to block in. And the tape deactivated slightly on skin oil before it goes down.
The Little World 
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