I thought I had already started this thread, but can't find it...
Anyway - while gloss coats are drying on the Hs 129 and the EJ Kai, I've made some progress on the Fiesler. Lots of elbow grease, fuselage closed up (with pilot inside - had to go in first or he wouldn't fit), bottom wing on with loads of putty, all panel lines had to be rescribed, tail and stabs on with PE brace, drilled intake and added PE to the exhausts, built up the PE bomb rack (not pictured), and added the wing struts. Now I'm working on the vac canopy (it doesn't fit quite right - so going to have to improvise some improvements to the canopy rim to help the two come together), and figuring out how I'm going to set up for the rigging, then will paint before the upper wing is added.
this has been sitting for awhile - but I've finally got it to the stage to paint. Only thing not on it yet is the tail hook, which will be added after paint. Here are a couple pics: crew in place before I fare in the vac-formed canopy with CA:
And this is the aircraft - top wing is just setting in place for photo. I'll do most of the rigging before I attach the cabane struts and top wing.
Paint on - ready for gloss coat, panel wash and decals, then on to painting the details (wheels, etc.) and weathering - then (gulp...) rigging. I'm going to attempt salt-weathering on this one - will be my first rodeo with that.
Wing is not glued down. Because there are no locator pins/marks, I'm going to rig all I can prior to putting on the top wing, then add the cabane struts and complete the rigging.
The contrast between the two greens was too stark on first attempt, so I used a thinned mixture of the lighter green to go back over both the green colors to mute the darker one a bit. Should have done just a bit more - still too stark for my taste.
Rigging almost done. Here the outside sections of the wings are done - need to put on the top wing, then insert the cabane struts to finish.
I do have the wing on and only 2 runs left - then need to add the metal wire between the ailerons, and the antenna from top wing to tail. Then ready to mount!
Done! A coupe of pics below. For all pics and full write-up, here's the iModeler post: https://imodeler.com/2020/10/pavla-1-72-fieseler-fi-167/