Sailorman

I haven't buit that specific kit, but If it were me building it, I would mask the clear part and paint the full width of the invasion stripes in white then mask the white when it has dried in order to paint the black stripes. Alternatively, one could paint the white and then cut the black parts out of the white decal strip and fix those. Suggest you wait a day or two perhaps someone has built that specific kit and can offer other suggestions.

There are 3 fora: Airfix, Hornby (trains) and Scalextric. Be sure you are posting in the AIrfix one. You should be seeing the same page as the image attached to the post. If you tick the box in the menu on the right hand side where it says AIRFIX FORUM you will "untick" all the black boxes. You can then tick any one of the sections you are interested in .....for example "Aircraft" and you will see ONLY the posts that are in the Aircraft section. With them all ticked you see all the posts from all sections. This might be a bit confusing as the posts for all sections will be shown. If you have any specific questions post them here and Ratch and I will try to answer them.

A lot of panel lines have now been scribed. Some more work required on the Starboard fin ....but will get there soon. In the pic below you can see the lines have been painted very roughly with matt black. I do this to check for errors. They are easy to identify and I am in time to correct them after they are sanded. A quick sanding down with fine wet'n dry sandpaper using lots of liquid soap and warm water and the model ends up looking like the second photo. Incidentally, wings and tailplane have not been cemented in place yet. I'll do that after everything is filled and sanded. Unfortunately, the fuselage halve either didn't fit very well or I made a poor job of cementing them together. There is a lot of sanding / filling required to make the fuselage joint acceptable. When I finish this stage of the job I will assemble the wings, engines and tailplane and leave it aside for a week or two. I find that the glue / filler tends to shrink over the first few days and even though the joint is invisible it will appear again. Giving it time to shrink will mean I can go back and fill it again. Hopefully, it will then remain invisible.

In the meantime I've continued scribing panel lines. Main wings top and bottom are also complete. I'll scribe a few lines in the wheel wells to give a bit of interest and glue them together. Once dry, I will sand them down and clean out the panel lines ensuring that the points where they meet up are clean and tidy. Incidentally the black you see is just pencil lead as I run a pencil along each scribed line as I complete it so that I would know which are done and which aren't I need to glue the fuselage together before I can start to scribe its panel lines since these wrap around the full perimeter. Same for the engines.