Do 17Z-2 Progress

A test fit of the fuselage after adding all of the un-painted PE parts for the cockpit from the Eduard BigEd set. 

All the Eduard PE glued to the landing gear. 

And the result after painting. 

The cockpit is finished. I added a bit of free hand wiring to make it look more interesting from the front. 

The fuselage halves are glued together and the Eduard PE seatbelts glued in place. 

Added cabling behind the instrument panels are not according to any reference. Just my idea to make it look a bit more interesting. 🙂 

Some Eduard PE for the bombs. 

Bombs finished along with the extra tank that will be placed in the forward compartment of the bomb bay. 

I decided I wanted to be able to open lift part of the canopy in order to get a better look inside and be able clean up the interior when the model is finished.
After cutting the canopy in half I had to replace ca 1 mm of the canopy with a plastic sheet that was cut away by razor saw. 

The fit after adding the piece in between the two halves. 

I added some more detail to the bomb bay together with the Eduard PE. 

Wings modified for the Eduard PE flaps and some extra detail added. 

The wheel bays also got some Eduard PE detail. 

And everything glued together. 

Result after painting and weathering. 

The bomb bay doors got some extra detail from the Eduard PE set. 

Extra tank glued into the bomb bay. 

The kit provides two nicely detailed engines. No extra PE detail here. I've decided to build the kit with one engine bay opened up to expose the engine. 

Some marbling effect on the under side. 

The marbling is clearly visible through the RLM65 bottom color. 

I'm doing the winter camo, but I want the standard camo to be visible through te white winter camo. I.e some masking and painting with RLM70 and RLM71 needed to be done. 

The winter camo is applied using a bit of marbling before spraying the top layer. 

The RLM04 wing marking sprayed. 

All the decals along with the RLM04 identifying band is finished. I waited with the spraying of the yellow band until I knew where the decals would end up, due to some inconsistency with the marking directions in the manual. 

The bomb bay mounted fuel tank came loose several times during the painting process, so I decided to let it be until I finished painting before gluing it in place again. 

Basic painting is finished and a matte coat is applied before weathering. I also removed the masking of the windows which is always exciting 🙂. 

Still alot of work to be done... 

It is finished! 🙂 

The aft part of the canopy is removable (my modification), so that you can have a better look inside. 

On its place in the book shelf. It is a bit lonely at the moment, but there will be more 😉 ...