Is there an enemy submarine…?
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I was wondering the same thing. You can still see light when looking in the cockpit on my build. Not sure what changed, but I also am thinking of getting another kit and trying again.
It’s a fun little kit!
Wings in place and primed, we’re in the short rows now.
You might recall earlier in this build I mentioned that I started glueing the wing halves together without dry fitting the parts, well I managed to sand out the mis-alignment of the leading and trailing edges but I didn’t consider the join at the wing root, it took a lot of effort to get the wings in place but there’s a nasty little gap at the top of the windscreen and along the cabin’s top port side edge. Ughh, this little plane has been a PIA from the get-go.
Cajun 
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No pics today, spent Friday evening spraying the base coat only to realize Saturday morning it was too dark, re-sprayed with a lighter gray and left it for today, Sunday. Today I sprayed the clear coat and it came out very pebblely, few hours later I attempted shooting the plane with Future . . let’s back up here . . . the last couple of models I’ve been struggling with my Iwata, been getting serious blow-back into the cup, I’d clean it, load it with paint/thinner and go to spraying again but still getting bubbles, understand now, I treat my gun like a surgical instrument, needles’ not bent, nice deadly point, O rings are good and you can bet your a$$ it’s clean . . . so here I go trying to squirt Future and its spitting and bubbling and puddling on the model, runs going down the tail and sides and I’m getting bent. So now I’m spraying water on it to wipe off the Future, that wasn’t really working so I spray it down with Windex and strip the Future off. Tear down the airbrush, clean everything and just started spraying water to see what would happen, same thing, bubbles, . . . .
then I noticed I could see just a glimpse of O ring between the head cap and body, tightened it down and problem solved. Well hell, I knew I was only tightening “finger tight” but I didn’t think the threads were that loose, live and learn.
As far as the model, I’ll get the Future applied tomorrow and start slappin’ on decals, one problem though, it wasn’t until after I got the fuselage together that I thought about nose weight, sure enough it wants to sit on it’s tail. Can’t wait to get back to ground pounders.
Cajun
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Tough luck, but keep going, you’ll make it! 
Peter
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