Building the Revell Sea Vixen FAW.2

The inventory. Apart from the Eduard interior PE, I got an Airwaves exterior set, and masks by DEAD design. 

This kit needs quite some weight, I chose to add more than the required 25 grams to be sure. 

The Airwaves set was new to me designwise, in the end I could only use the part for the airbrake bay and part of the airbrake interior, as it was designed for the FROG kit. My bad. 

I filled the nose with lead and poured CA glue over it for good measure. 

Quite some parallel subassemblies. 

Adding the intakes. 

The DEAD design masks worked virtually as well as Eduard´s normally do in my hands. 

There was even a bit of space for more weight in front of the cockpit, I made use of it. 

Gluing the fuselage halves, not without some pressure. 

The masks worked well on the canopies. 

There was still some gap on the front fuselage. 

I masked off the exhausts with home-punched circles. 

I liked the look of the rocket pods. 

Masking the wheelwells with pieces of sponge. 

The canopies after de-masking. It worked. 

This model could benefit from some preshading, especially the belly. 

The wheel masks worked well. 

Ready for decaling. 

I did not feel comfortable working with the decals, as they were very prone to silvering despite giving the model a good gloss coat prior to their application. A side of one of the red warning boxes tore off, to make things more interesting. 

Luckily I still had these dry transfers. I cut a piece of the appropriate width to size ... 

And taped it to the model, then - with bated breath - applied pressure with a pencil  

It worked. Sighhh ... 

I applied all the decals to the underside.  

And prepared the wing sections completely before gluing them, very carefully. 

The canopies were attached with PVA glue. 

I made a simple presentation base and a transport jig, as I wouldn´t want the landing gear to take all that weight during a car ride.