Shelf queens – Corsair progress.

I’ve glued the landing gears and covers in place.

Landing gears in place
Landing gears in place

I then continued with the topside. Removing tape that had been sitting there for years wasn’t fun. I also had to remove the front glass in order to glue the sight parts in place.
The pilot was also seated. Thought it could look nice!

Topside with canopy open
Topside with canopy open
Topside, canopy closed
Topside, canopy closed

After that I started the weathering process by giving all the panel lines on the topside an oil wash in grey. A tad bit on the tick side for being a wash.

Grey oil wash
Grey oil wash

As it’s oil colours it’s quite easy to remove the excess with cotton buds and perhaps some white spirit and paper cloth. I’ll show the result later.

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