Italeri GR4 1:32

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Started this a few weeks ago and get to play with it each Saturday. Posting a few stage photos as to current progress, and this weekend managed to complete the first major step by getting the two halves of the cockpit together after cramming some ballast in the nose (fishing weight).
 

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A few more images to go with it.
 

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Spent a little more time on this over the weekend. Starting to get an appreciation of the size of this model now.
 

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Nice work Edward, it's going to look very impressive in 1:32.
 
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I have managed to get some more work done on this today. progress images below. I've decided to leave one engine in an engine stand and high detail the paintwork on it with retracted TR buckets. The fitted engine will be of less detailing as unseen, but the TR buckets will be deployed as if in a ground-fitted test. In addition, the nose cone will be open.
 

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I managed to get a few more hours on this today as I had booked the day off work. The engines haven't begun having detail added yet so are still very "mono". The engine stand had to be ground equipment green as they stated blue in the instructions (I've never seen a blue engine stand),
 

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