After a couple of days of just tinkering I started to feel the love for this battle again. I had some time to myself yesterday as swmbo was away visiting. I started work on the side skirts which I plan to make up but not fit until the body is painted, the main reason being I stuck the top hull on too soon. When I looked at my reference picks I noticed they were different to my kit part as the last section of the skirt was a grille and thought this looked much better.
Not a problem, I thought it would be relatively easy to remove the last section and replace it with a scratch built piece. So out came ruler paper and pencil and a drawing made up.
At this point I had now removed the bracket from the skirt so I could make a start. I started to check through the relevant sprue for the pieces for the opposite side when I noticed another two side skirts, these were shorter and next to them the grilles!!! I checked the instructions but couldn't see an option listed for these skirts.
Instead of cutting the current skirt and scratch building the solution was already there. Brackets carefully removed from the first skirt, some better bolt heads attached and just enough time to put the first skirt and grille together. Happy modeller.