Hi, sorry for the lack of more and better pictures, this is not a proper WIP, but I really enjoyed the kit and my progresses were so quick that I didn't have the time to stop and take them.
At this point I can only give my impression and humble advice if you are willing to start this kit: it is a "new generation" kit, with excellent fitting and stunning surface details like Eduard's Fw. 190A or SH Bf. 190E: mating surfaces have to be clear from thick paint and filler is needed only in a couple of spots.
I only had to trim the supercharger intake to fit the corresponding recess in the starboard fuselage and use some Tamiya liquid surface primer were I sanded it a little too much, and I will use it again at the wing root trailing edges and bottom wing to engine connection.
I am building this first one from the box, but I painted most plastic and PE parts before using them because it saved me some time from masking, especially in the wheels well area.
I had to brush paint some
RLM66 on the IP and side consoles decals after their pose, because the decals has an incomprehensible black background: strange mistake for a kit so well studied and conceived...
Lots of small PE parts HAD to be used, they are not just optional as in other kits: gear legs scissors, some small levers in the cockpit, rudder pedals, seatbelts, the small flap to avoid exhaust gases to go inside the air intake and, most important, nearly half of the wheels well! Here I found easier to revers the instruction sequence and, for port wing, started with part PE-38, then PE-32, PE-22 and last PE-27 (please refer to the corrected Instruction on IBG website): I replaced the MG barrel cover inside the structure with a metal tube of suitable size and will add the proper barrel at building finished.
I reduced to barely visible all the lines representing the fabric tapes on the flying control surfaces and cut the pitot tube from the wing, to be replace later with some metal needle.
Here is some pictures of the model at this moment, I am not quite happy about