Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey

Working on a way to open/close the cargo door with some 'hydraulic rams' made with some brass rod/tube. 

Pity that none of the 1:72 model kits have the correct 2 piece cargo door. As far as all the photos I have seen of the Osprey it should be a 2 piece as found on the bigger 1:48 kits, wonder why ?? 

Just some tidying up of the pivot points and I can glue the fuselage together. 

Trying out a way of rebuilding the raised panel lines using EZ-line soaked in 'Glue n Glaze' 

It sort of works... though something a bit thinner would be even better. 

Need to do a better job of melding in the new panel line 'ends'. 

The fuselage in its paint scheme and it's starting to look like an osprey.  

Don't think I will glue the hydraulic ram piece (with blue ends) that tilts the rotor nacelle (in real life) so I can tilt the nacelle to whatever position I want on my model. 

Pretty well finished finally, I think the final coat will be a matt/satin finish after a few more days to let the decals dry off and that will be it.  

The gloss coat came up pretty well on this model 

Oh, a jeep just fits in and I must glue the propellers on.  

Final satin coat and everything glued in place 

The end.