I am kind of disappointed with this Nanzan, because the canopy is closed only. But the biggest disappointment is… there is a big gap between canopy and fuselage.
After covered the glasses of canopy by mask tape, I filled the gap by epoxy putty. After dry, I added some putty and ground smooth.
There are two triangle structures under the wing. Tamiya only engraves a simple slot on each triangle structure. For improvement the detail, I sawed the middle of the triangle structure. Then I drilled a 0.25mm hole near the top and put a 0.25mm wire into the hole.
I scribed the positions of flap fairing on flaps first (Are they usually called "flap fairing"? I am not sure, sorry...). Made the flap fairings by 0.076mm brass sheet and 0.8mm brass rod. Installed these flap fairings after painted the fuselage.
Next was replacing gray navigation lights. Cut navigation lights on both side of wing away. Glued clear rod on same positions and ground them becoming same shape as navigation lights.
Made a new pitot tube by 0.5 and 0.8mm brass pipes. The instruction shows that insert pitot tube in front of wing, but I found that pitot tube is installed under the wing on real airplane. Therefore, I filled original hole and added two small piece styrene rods under the wing for fixing pitot tube.
These exhausts are really small. I was afraid to break them. Thus I didn’t drill holes, I scribed a small slot on the head of exhaust instead.
The diameter of piston rod was same as main strut. I decided to replace by a smaller brass rod. Sawed the part of piston rod first. Then drilled a 0.8mm hole from bottom and inserted a 0.8mm brass rod.
Added break lines on landing gears by 0.25mm wire. Furthermore, the wheel doors were too thick. I made two new wheel doors by 0.127mm brass sheet.
Painted these small parts first.
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