Thanks for the good words, colleagues! Here's the latest:
The spats are plated, and everything is just tacked in place for the photos - I don't want more of a masking
challenge than I need.
The 'stub exhausts will get longer, more, ah, diesel-ly pipes, after everything else
is painted and assembled. Alas, the white primer I've been using stays tacky a lot longer than other flat primers
I've used, otherwise I probably could have finished it this weekend. ( Even with all the yard work! )
And finally, a close shot of the engine, of which I am inordinately proud. Its the kit engine, with short
sections of evergreen plastic tube slid over the cylinders, ( which are plain bare stubs, intended more to evoke
engine cylinders than emulate them...) aluminum tube heads, and pushroddy things made from some
schurzen brackets out of a sturmgeschutz kit I was recently given.
That's it for now -hope to finish it over the next weekend. PRU blue overall, I think - debating black
undersurfaces, and I'm certainly open to suggestions.
And hopefully, one more project before the deadline. ( hmmm. Where have I heard
that before...