So much work with applying putty and sanding. I also prepared new front wing from styrene sheets to replace the wrong one. This won't progress for two weeks while I'm on holiday.
Airbrushed Mr.Surfacer and noticed, that it is still far from smooth. Also noticed from the picture that the engine is slightly tilted. Maybe it is just exaggerated from this point of view so I'm not going to fix it.
The original Unicraft resin was too brittle and hard so I recasted the fuselage and the wings. I'm being lazy and assuming symmetric wings so I don't need to make left and right wings separately.
More details on the engine. The cooling air exit is made of a metal sheet from a spare photo etched part. Exhaust pipes will be put to the holes after some painting. The pinholes are nasty and I'm currently trying to fill them with water diluted plastic putty with a needle.
I tried to put on the original canopy part that had very unclear frame lines. That resulted about 1mm width frames that I cut from aluminium foil tape. I thought that the frames could hide the ugly boundary and glue. But the aluminium is too thin and is ugly... I had to remake it.
Here the front of the engine is matched with propeller spinner. The gap is filled with plastic putty and Surfacer 1000. The spinner is "glued" with liquid mask.
I made exhaust pipes from injection needles. I drilled the holes too deep and cut the pipes too short, so of course one of the pipes sinked too deep. I had to cut a very short piece to glue on the surface.
First varnish layer and decals from Payen 22 kit. The big white number 3s is from my old leftover box. Number 2 is more common in other Pa.350 models for some reason, but I didn't have that number in hand. It also should be white, so I could not print it myself.