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This just looks perfect, knowing where you've come from with this build.

Love your SHAR Motta, including the panel lines, but Arne does have a point with regards to the missiles. I would think that usually, only inert missiles would get that dirty. Live ones, I presume, would be stored in crates, lovingly cared for, mounted carefully just prior to a mission and mostly offloaded during or shortly afterwards. Since a pinwash is really the only thing feasible to make a missile's fins stand out more, it was probably a good choice to apply it, but maybe you just left a little too much on there. I any case, I would be proud to have mine come out looking like this one.

I would actually love to know what a "sensor sensor 1" is. First time I've heard that. But on the topic at hand, I think the gloss finish is okay. I would maybe have matted down the radome a bit, but the rest looks like the real thing when they were still here. But to give some credit to Arne, it would seem logical that these aircraft would lose some of their brilliant luster when they were transferred to the Germans, so he would be right to have only known them having a semi-gloss appearance at best Just kidding, I love Germans ;)

Brilliant! Well done!

It's your model, but if I were you I'd still take some thin but sturdy aluminium foil or something and do at least one open cowling. Some stringers, a few drilled holes to represent screws and a few bundles of wires go a long way into making it look suitably busy. I know I wouldn't be able to stand it to know that these engines were in there and still look like they could have just been nicely spruced up kit engines. Having said that, I also suffer from get-there-itis when I wrestle with a model for too long. I have only recently discovered that it pays not to get impatient towards the end sta

They do look great, those engines. Have you considered opening up a complete side panel to show off all that hard work?

In order to explain some of the things you see and in hoping to encourage others to try their luck on the same conversion, here's a list of what I have done to the kit: -Cut fuselage in two locations as per Belcher Bits instructions -scratchbuilt a full sensor operator cabin inclusing the ceiling -scratchbuilt the visible portion of the rear walkway -added Eduard's cockpit instrument PE set -reworked the cockpit/cabin passage and added detail -acratchbuilt 4 seats -opened up the port fuselage escape hatch -added details to the kit engines -added Eduard undercarriage PE set -added tru

Here are the final pictures of the result of a three month struggle for you to enjoy ;)/>/> Complete build report here: My link

OK, just finishing some last odds and ends: Attempts 1 and 2 of the stairs: Jury struts seated in their appropriate locations and hatches installed: Windscreen washers, rocket aiming post and a poor attempt at the light-solored sealant added: And finally the static dischargers: So there it is; more pictures in the critique corner:

I have a few pictures in which I see green primer, but it's probably wise to double check. BTW, it will be totally invisible unless you're opening up some panels.

I Punched tiny holes in brass sheet and cut small mounts around those holes afterwards to give me all the connectors. You can see them on some earlier photographs. It doesn't look like the plug-type connectors from real life, but it is not that obvious and gives a stronger hold. I put a small diameter piece of tube on the wire, then treaded the wire through those holes, looping back and through the tube, securing with ca glue before cutting the remainder off. Then did the same on the other end. I made the small diameter tubing from heat-stretching a plastic Q-tip which gave me a nice small d

Thanks! I used Bobe's Hobby House EZ-line (which is great stuff) coupled with a year's worth of frustration. The crossed connectors nearly drove me over the edge though.

Yes, the attitude lights are orange colored and are both on the left lower quarter of my model. Not on the kit though...The missing clear upper fuselage light is between both the missing cabin vents on top. I believe there were versions with more than two vents, but our A's just had two. The lower fuselage light is not yet on my model as I don't have a clear location for that one. All these teardrop shaped lights are made very easily with a little help from an Eduard PE fret or similar. The undercarriage set 48-700 has a double row of templates on the side that are present in three sizes. Push