The end of the seventh week I have the fuselage together and the wings installed. The fit of the fuselage and the wings was not the best. Both required a lot of putty to fill in the gaps. I am now adding the finer details onto the fuselage like pitot tubes and antenna’s. I then need to mask off the cockpit, landing gear bays, intake, and exhaust areas to start painting. The scheme for PAV2 is light ghost grey with dark ghost grey camouflage. I need to also make a couple of masks for the exhaust area. The exhaust area has a lot of small panels and the reference photos show many panels vary in color. Should have all the painting completed over the next week and possibly starting the decals.
You can see all the photos and detail of this start in the build log at: 1/48 YF-23 ATF – Black Widow II