Minicraft 1/48 XF5F-1

 

I painted the instrument panel with Model Master Black Chrome, and filled the dial faces with a dark grey, and then over-coated the faces with Alclad Gloss Clear. I can see I need to touch up some of the areas around
 the gauges in the pictures. It looked great while I was doing it, as usual. The panel will be very hard to see with a closed canopy.  There is no real alignment left and right for the fuselage on the wing. It looked easier
to glue the nose on the wing first, as it at least had some guide rails on the wing. I think building the short nose version will be difficult because of this because the nose comes in three parts and has no fit to the leading edge of the wing.