The thing I remember about this line of kits is you received a set a plans and a box of balsa blocks.  The plans said sand the balsa blocks to look like the plans.  You Sir, did a wonder job of doing just that!  This is the best looking example of one of these kits I have ever seen.

David

Hi David 

Thanks a lot. Marutaka kits need a lot of work indeed.

This build started almost 20 years ago. I stopped it many times. As those days in Greece digital cameras etc was something unknown or very expensive, I can not post photos. So the very first one comes from 2010.Fuselage and wing were ready and glassed....Nose was modified, in order to fit a 4T engine, instead 55 2T.

Then first layer of primer and sand with wet sand paper.

Before the second layer, I used 1mm masking tape, for paneling. At the end some sanding altering sand paper and soft cloth.

A modified soldering iron was used for rivets. This part took days, as first I had to mark the rivets on fuselage and wing and then start to burn the primer layer.

When I finished, the entire surface was smoothed using soft cotton cloth.