I’m back from holidays and managed a bit of modelling over the last few days.

First up I got the three 1/48 TA 183 upgrade parts from Quickboost from a company in Cyprus. I got them inside 10 days which was pretty quick.

I decided to remove the moulding stubs and do some basic clean up on the engine intake and exhaust. The intake on the kit is it’s biggest shortfall being too short. This “feature” is carefully ignored in many reviews by facing the kit away to avoid showing this.

The parts before cleanup as they arrived.
After clean up of the first two parts.

I also started doing the clean up of the pebbly yellow paint on the Raumer S but due to the wet weather this will carry over to next week.

Above are two books I picked up in Adelaide.

Lastly I managed to get more of the assembly of the Ki61 done. There’s still a little fettling to be done on this but this is an Easter holiday weekend so I’ll see what can be done.