Mark Sherwood
Looking good. Kudos on the rivet job, one piece of kit I don't have at the moment.

Thomas Bischoff
I'm in - built this years ago

John Author
Thanks Mark and Thomas. For an old kit, this one is quite nice. It's also nice to be able to build it so quickly due to its simplicity.

Neil
Following also 👍

Spanjaard
nice job so far.
unfortunately you are right about rossie the riveted. but I have seem what seems to be a copy of it....

John Author
Thanks Neil and Spanjaard. Have the base/chipping coat on, now on to the doodle coat... The copies of the rivet tool are fine, not like they're that sophisticated, but anything is better than the abomination from Trumpter they sell as a "rivet tool!"

Thomas Bischoff
good idea to paint the markings and not use the decals 👍
is the Hasegawa instruction sheet recommending RLM71? This is wrong - should be the darker green RLM70.
… I have two Emils with the wrong green - lol

John Author
Thomas, yes! I was looking at some other kits (Tamiya and Wingsy) last night for their box art and noticed they both listed RLM70 for the main color. Even the Hasegawa box cover shows a darker green, so someone at Hasegawa in charge of research made a mistake and I was too trusting.

I don't want to go back and repaint, so we will just guess that this machine was on a rare Swiss deployment to North Africa and the paint has faded. 😄

Thomas Bischoff
like this explanation - can contribute two builds to prove your claim, lol

Desert Marlin
I like the finished look!

Spanjaard
i think it looks fantastic too

Mark Sherwood
I agree with the above. 🤘🥸👍

J35J
Great build and paintjob! Congrats 👍🏻

Neuling
Top result! The colors and the paintwork are beautiful.

Rob
Lovely colouring!

Pietro De Angelis
Beatiful job, congrats!

John Author
Thanks for the likes and comments everyone! 👍