Alex1N: Piece of styrene car body filler from the bits box, for the LH cockpit box
Alex1N: All seats glued in place - the belts won’t get painted
Alex1N: Belt up in the back!
Alex1N: Other pilot’s (captain’s) seat done
Alex1N: Thinner tape - done
Alex1N: First masking tape belts - too wide
Alex1N: Red ‘buttons’ on cyclics
Alex1N: Not good - brush too fluffy
Alex1N: Another belt-brushing attempt about to happen
Alex1N: Belt masks removed
Alex1N: Painted front seats - seatbelts yet to be fixed
Alex1N: Collective levers switched about from the incorrect kit instructions
Alex1N: Cyclic sticks added
Alex1N: Mr Surfacer 500 splodged on with a toothpick
Alex1N: Masking tape masks for the 'lambswool cover' on the other pilot seat
Alex1N: Treated seat and some exceedingly badly painted seatbelts
Alex1N: Three different versions of ‘RAF Sky’
Alex1N: ‘Transmission diff’ in place
Alex1N: ‘Green zinc chromate primer’ in the transmission ‘differential(?)’ bay and the aft storage compartment
Alex1N: Adding a ‘lambswool’ cover to a pilot seat
Alex1N: Instrument panel transfers on
Alex1N: Pilot’s seat painted (one of two)
Alex1N: Closer up view of the blackened cockpit bits
Alex1N: Various bits painted with Tamiya Rubber Black
Alex1N: Kiowa fuselage halves
Alex1N: Test fit of cockpit structure in port fuselage half
Alex1N: MM Olive Drab on seats
Alex1N: MM Light Ghost Gray [sic.] , plus Tamiya Rubber Black on instrument panel hood
Alex1N: Tamiya primer sprayed over the cleaned-up bits
Alex1N: Faulty primer application removed