Bughunter

I accidentally restored these updates in the wrong order – anyway, here’s the next step.

After the fuselage was painted, additional details could be added.

Pic 1 A while ago I made new little fuel and oil caps from brass.

Pic 2 Turned on the lathe and then the brass around the handles was milled away.

Pic 3 The kit provides decals for the fuel caps, here the one "PETROL GRAVITY". The letters are maybe 0.3mm high, I need the macro lens to apply the decal in the right direction.

Pic 4 The caps are mounted. On the white paper you see my brass fasteners: That is squeezed 0.2mm brass wire. The holes to mount them were made at a very early stage.

Pic 5 Around 30 of them were added: On maintenance panels on both sides and also below the fuselage.

Pic 6 New intake pipes (air for the carburetor) were prepared already.

Pic 7 Here you see it mounted. The gloss metal left of him is a securing rope for the hole metal panel. A steel rope on the original plane, I use a 0.15mm copper wire. The kit has a recess already. I drilled holes and glued the wire in (on both sides).

Pic 8 I also designed a little decal sheet (a huge Thank you goes to Viking/Jürgen, who helps me with the right font) and printed it on my Laser printer. Multiple times, you never know!

Pic 9 Decals are applied to the lower wings. As I used a scan of my wings as base the fit of the decals was perfect.