Ray'S Sentry

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Main painting complete
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The wheels are now on and I have some detail painting to fix up on the antennas.

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Attaching the radome became a pain, the pylons have pinched in at the top, so I damaged some paintwork with glue trying to attach it. The second attempt coming up, then the main gear doors go on and decals.
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Man that looks good. Hopefully the radome won't give you too much more in the way of difficulties but it is a sizeable bit of kit to fit.
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That is very cool Ray!
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All good intentions to finish it on the weekend and I had to sand back some paint on the radome and respray. Some more masking to go and I hope I can reinstall it soon.

I suppose I can start decalling the rest of the model
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Well after much dilly-dallying some more progress to report

The radome finally was painted to an acceptable standard and it was fitted along with the horizontal stabs.

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Then I spent the best part of 4 hours decalling

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Got to the engines and it and was time for a break, there are about 15 decals on each engine, I managed the first 4 on the first one. National marking will be the last to go on.
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Four hours well spent, Ray, that is really looking great!
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Nice! This is going to be a classic
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Your patience and skill are paying off! Looks excellent.

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Stunning!
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Looking very nice. You've got a couple of frisky airframes in your first pic :grin:

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Clashcityrocker wrote:Looking very nice. You've got a couple of frisky airframes in your first pic :grin:

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I'll just put this here...

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Looks superb, Ray.

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That is bloody lovely - Nice work.
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Wonderful! That's a great build!
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