All vents (22) scribed ! Need to clean up a little bit, but quite happy with the outcome.
The second template, for the rear panel, has been complicated to make and use…
Eventually, found a good reference picture of the area behind the ejection seat. Probably from a prototype or early stage airframe, so I will need to extrapolate a little bit and rearrange the area…
Source : avions-de-la-guerre-..-suite-71127395.html
Issue with this kit: the exhaust has to be installed before glueing the half fuselages (way too large at the base to be inserted afterward… so it would be hard to get rid of the awful seam near the exhaust (see pic #7 for reference)
BTW, due to the previous shortening of the fuselage aft, the exhaust has to be shortened too. So I cut off a section of the exhaust, and applied bevel cuts…