The kit was built using
Aires cockpit and wheel wells and Eduard's photoetched parts.
Kit decals
were replaced with excellent TwoBobs' ones. The open maintenance doors and
refueling probe are scratchbuilt . I also purchased Airwaves
landing gears, but I can't recommend them because of poor details on them.
For me it looks better to use the kit ones and add some wires. Painting
was done with Tamiya sprays, weathering with oil paints and some Agama
pigments.
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The Aires
cockpit looks very good, it's nicely detailed but the instrument panel is not
accurate so I used the Eduard one. Wheel wells needed a lot of
sanding to fit into fuselage, but I think they worth the effort. The kit
itself went together well except of the joint between upper fuselage and
wing which cost me a lot of time and nerves during sanding and recribing
panel lines.
I hope you like
it.
Dr.R.
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