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        for the interior, other details were picked out   airframe. Most of this is pretty straightforward,
        using a range of Vallejo and Citadel Miniatures   but whilst cleaning up the parts I was surprised
        acrylics. It’s worth adding that I omitted   to see that the fi ne trailing edges of the
        painting the plywood rear section of the aircraft   ailerons were unevenly moulded, and had to
        as this will not be seen once the model is   be reinstated with small pieces of Evergreen
        closed up. In contrast, the wide open cockpit   strip - Photos 23 - 25. Further to this, I found
        areas reveal a very high level of detail that   that when dry-fi tting the tail unit into the slot
        Wingnut Wings have done justice to without   at the rear of the fuselage it wouldn’t fully
        the addition of any extra materials - Photos   engage, leaving a 3 mm gap. It is handed,   23
        13 - 19.                            making it diffi cult to put it in the wrong way
                                            around, and I couldn’t work out why this
        Problems?!                          should be a problem. I contacted Wingnut
        Once the cockpit was completed other smaller   Wings but Richard Alexander wasn’t aware
        items such as the guns and wheels were   of the problem and could offer me no real
        painted, and then I turned my attention to the   explanation, so having to put it down to just





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