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So, most of it all assembled and the cockpit largely painted. Panel lines have in most cases been touched up a bit with the scriber, spinal fillet made with plasticard (supplied with the kit), holes were made for the landing gear, main gear pinned for some added (or maybe just plain some) strength...
And despite all the work shifting the centre of mass forwards it wants to be a tail sitter. Adding the prop (another hole that needed to be drilled) just about enables it to go node down, but the rocket pods will pull things back a bit again. And so a bit of lead will be fitted into the extra fuel tank (seen being scratch built on the left) and a little bit extra will be snuck into the cockpit wherever else I can fit it. (Your feet go as checked luggage even if you're the pilot, not carry-on, thankyouverymuch.) It seems there should be a centre line console for one thing, so that'll be a roughly cut chunk of lead.
