Landing gear pieces - I have thinned the inside of the spats (one half of each side is very thick) and added a sanded-down strut (which is designed for use on the version with opened-up spats)
The propeller comes as a resin hub and injection molded blades and spinner. I drilled 0.4mm holes in all and pinned the blades with steel wire. Here the blades are being glued in place using a Kora jig
Front and back sections of canopy attached. Found the moulded-on wing mounts were set too low, so I glued on replacements set higher and cut off the originals
Landing gear lights include a resin light and a vac-formed cover. The cover had to be roughly shaped, glued in place and then heavily sanded to shape and polished (luckily its quite thick). Here the left shows the components and the right is complete
And finally wings attached - some clean-up needed on the strut joins to the wings and undercarriage but after that, and a bit more masking, it will be on to paint
A coat of gloss black has been sprayed on, touch-ups done where needed, Clearfix windows added at the back and final bits added. Ready for decals tomorro
While Tintin and crew are at the Syldavian moon launch facility it is overflown by an unknown plane (presumably Bordurian) that looks a lot like a Westaland Lysander. I've chosen to build the Pavla Lysander Mk.II kit, largely out of the box, except for a replacement Lewis gun from the spares box (as the kit item is pretty crude) and a Yahu instrument panel. The plane is only shown in silhouette in the book so I'll paint it black as a night infiltration/spy plane with home-made Bordurian markings
