Now to get the wheels in place. The landing gear bits were mostly missing from this jumbled box, but I knew I only really needed the wheels and the covers to make it work. Would have been neat to see the folding mechanism though... oh, well.
Usually I go for the pink primer coat, but since I just used that on my Tintin Short Sunderland project... let's switch things up a bit and go with the white. The grey plastic isn't all that hard to hide anyway.
You can't tell, but I painted the sides white. Now for some careful masking. I doubled the tape before I cut it so that the zig-zag line would be exactly the same on both sides. The raised rivets extravaganza is going to cause some issues I think.
Ahhh... and there's what I was worried about with the rivets. The black coat made a bit of overspray where the rivets lifted the masking tape ever so slightly. Not much I can really do about that though... there are rivets EVERYWHERE. I can live with it.
Added the fuel tanks (painted grey in accordance with my Scale Modeller's Guide to Aircraft from the Adventures of Tintin. Also got some homemade decals put on. I think the ones on the tail are a bit high though... maybe I shouldn't believe EVERYTHING in my guidebook.