Fenous

1000 surfacer followed by 1500 black surfacer, tomorrow check for mistakes, correcting them, polishing and start with camouflage.

You got it, I forgot manually ballance while using another light source than usually. It`s still bare plastic, I`ll use black Mr.Surfacer as primer because there will be lot of white on surface and black is the best undercoat for white color. And lot of masking will follow....

Airframe almost ready for surfacer, nothing to make pictures of, so photographing at least some small stuff.

Gear bay covered with sheet metal and wired.

Propulsion is complete

Now we have legs!

While riveting shop works in 3 shifts, there is no rest in engine works: Riveting is finished, fusselage and wing halves glued together. Now the most boring work - sanding rivets, there is lot of raised details on wing to be careful about. During weekend I`d like to glue wing and fussleage together and finalize surface before airbrushing surfacer.

About the debris: if moistened paintbrush doesn`t work because of lack of space, I would take thin flexible tube, put it in cup of an airbush and seal it with Tack-it or similar and pressure from airbrush should suck the air through the tube making something like vacuum cleaner. This is just theory, never tried that, but it might work.

A couple of last pictures of cockpit just before closing it:

Those early, not precut seatbelts doesn`t have backing paper and must be glued with CA, white glue doesn`t work.

Some pictures of dryfitted cockpit:

It looks, that parts 2 and 3 are mislabeled in instructions.

Kagero issues some good references, but the best, although most expensive and difficult to get are Japanese Aero Detail, Model Art etc.....

Painting cockpit finished, tried to keep those shadings under control, this is unforunately almost invisible due to LED lighting making it too flat. Some dust on seats back, will sand it and lately make there some chipping with silver.

Last picture before surfacer. Deciding if to glue on all those levers now or wait after painting.

Another Hasegawa 1/32, those are really addictive :-) Started riveting job with filling rivets made by Hasegawa replaced by rivets made by Fenous. Also some of cockpit hardware done.

Finally finished: http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=55519

Thank`s guys. Kevin, sure, I`ll be honored. regards Vaclav

And last ones:

Finished. Kit Hasegawa J2M2 Prototype, Eduard sets interior+exterior+masks, Master barrels, HGW setabelts, Gunze C colours+many others.

Almost done, canopy and winsheald only dryfitted, needing some correction with interior green on edges, also antenna mast, cannon barrels and pitot waiting for epoxy glue which I have run short of. And last but not least the gunsight, which gluing will be quite awkward due to its positioning. After all af this is done, I will make new shots with better light.

So this is like she looks now. Still need to redo weathering on cowling, I had to airbrush it with more yellow-orange colour, because it was too light compared with the remaining of the airframe, result of airbrushing cowling not mounted.

I`ve redone exhaust smoke, now to attach cowling, canopy, antennae, undercarriage.........also made position lights on wing of drop of Kristal klear.

Some smoke & dirt

Aotake in gear bays done, this colour is quite tricky to paint with, because it doesn`t cover well, contrary from my expectations to cover as well as other metallic colours. I`m note very satisfied with outcome, but there is nothing I can do with it. Now I will let it to cure and then wash will come. Also some accesory pictures.