Whazzit???

As you can see, there are (too) many parts that go insides each engine nacelle...as far as I can imagine not much will be visible after closing them... 

I have added circular "bulkheads" punched from 1 mm plastic sheet that will help to glue the fuselage halves right and also the ones in the rear (perhaps I should say: bottom ?) will serve as support for new supporting legs that need to be made from metal - the polistyrene ones included in the kit are obviously too thin to support the finished model (see right top of this photo)  

Internal parts of the engines painted. I am going to make some shadows, but I suppose not much will be visible after closing the nacelles. 

Some leftover decals glued with white glue to maintain more realistic shape and position 

Rocket engine nozzle pad installed - grooves inside the fuselage need to be filed a bit. 

Main fuselage closed. Unfortunately, the parts that constitute the transparent section do not fit well and are of a bit too small diameter compared to nose cone...  

Unfortunately, some CA fumes found the way insides. I am wondering why the joint line was not designed along the framing where it could be easily hidden... 

In the meantime I manufactured a jig to keep the angles between wings (or should I say: stabilisers?)... No, it is not a launch pad, in case someone asked 😉 

Since both fins and stabilisers are butt-joined to the fuselage in this kit, I added pieces of soft wire to reinforce the joints... 

...what in my opinion is necessary at least with respect to the stabilisers that carry the whole engine assemblies at their ends. 

Assembly of engines' gondolas started. I deviated a bit from the instructions here - locating tabs need to be removed, since they prevent closing the gondola's halves. Details of turbines are almost invisible, of course, and IMHO it will be easier to install the intake with the engine front after closing the gondola (instructions suggest to install the front before closing gondola's halves...) 

Some progress here: I have installed temporarily supporting legs, that I intend to substitute eventually. Engines' gondolas are already closed, but some puttying and sanding is unavoidable here...  

Proof of concept installment 😉 

New, sturdy undercarriage manufactured and installed. 

Cockpit transparency masked with vinyl masks supplied with the kit. Since these originally are translucent gray I decided to paint them silver beforehand in order to keep better control when applying them. (In the background there is Tu-143 Reys kit from Clear Prop! that flew down from the shelf of the doom lately... the number of tiny parts and separate decals - including each and every stencil - is overwhelming taking into account that this is such a small plane...) 

Fuselage and stabilisers painted, ready for decals. 

One of the gondolas served as a basis for determining the shape of red areas and producing the mask template. 

I manufactured the simple template for masks of the engines intakes, hope it will work..  

Sneak preview 😉 

Decals on!  

 

 

She would be difficult to spot from the front, surely. 

Waiting for the missile. 

Light neutral gray wash added only to highlight the panel lines. 

I have screwed up the job on missile, frankly speaking. I do not like its shape, nevertheless. It is installed temporarily, as I am going to substitute it with something looking more spectacular... 

New missile attached and I call her finished now... 

 

 

 

This missile looks much better IMHO, even though it is not so colourful and not adequate for the period...but, come on, this "Dever" could turn out so successful that it could be on active duty until now, don't you think so... 😉 

This one especially for WhiteGlint 😉 In fact the airfield base was produced by my fellow-modeller Marcin Dudek.