Dry brushed the interior of the tub to bring some detail out on the off-chance you'll be able to see it at the end. I've carefully zoomed it in the foreground :-D Look to the back past his big brother.
Nearly time to assemble the tub!
May have sneaked a smidgen of photoetch in to get the 1:72 set belts - from an Eduard RAF Q-Type seatbelt fret that I had stashed away. Looks the part!
Unlike his 1:48 big brother, didn't snap together reassuringly, and needed a bit of clamp persuasion to sit flush underneath. Fit still good, and gap between top side of wings and fuselage smaller than on the big one!
Looking a bit more plane shaped.
Must say, Little One's tail was more cleverly designed than Big One's.
Got an issue with the starboard nacelle aft, will wait for the primer to dry/set then have another poke at it. If it doesn't behave, my new Dremel will be getting involved!
My tale of 230 PRU Blue woe... started kits off with a little pot (bottom left) and a whole, sealed new big pot in the stash - plenty!
Used up little pot on underside of 1:48, but when I unsealed and opened the big pot (bottom right) - disaster! All dried up and crusty.
Build on hold, bar a few odds I could get ahead with 🙁
Antics (UK) mail-order to the rescue - had some in stock, arrived 2 working days later (top), hurrah - I'm off again.
As Sun Tzu never said, precut masks never survive first contact with the model... but I'm at least consistent across the two!
It occurred to me as I masked these two that I'm building a scale model of a scale model 🙂 ... which is a two-edged sword as they each help explain some fits and positions on each other, but I also want to get them as similar as possible.