Piaggio Pegna P.7

 

 

 

 

 

You will see very little or nothing of the cockpit once the fuselage is closed, I didn't spend much time on it, apart from a coat of brown with a uniPOSCA marker and a light shading with diluted oil colours. 

It's really hard to see anything in there, even less so when there's a windscreen! 

Top wing in place, checking the engine cover and bottom wings fit. 

Both propeller spinners were blunt, maybe a short press. I had to use some spare pointed parts from the scrap box! 

Only a little Tamiya white surfacer was used, but I prefer to drill holes for reinforcements pins in the hydrofoil mountings. 

 

Butt joined with Tamiya ExtraThin , then some CA from inside the fuselage in the pins locations to secure the lot (engine cover wasn't still in place). 

Instructions are quite vague here and there: you have to guess where part 24 should go, and even part 28 is nowhere to be found but this is less important because it is of the wrong size and shape! The other barred parts are not to be used.
The decals on the round fascias are wrong: they should always face forward, so I had to resort to my personal decal bank; the masks for the windscreen are oversized, so I used simple Tamiya tape cut to size instead. 

Water propeller with new spinner in situ. 

A new water rudder was shaped from a piece of thick plasticard, following the photo of the original airframe. 

There! Rear hydrofoil, propeller and rudder finished. 

Nearing the painting stage. 

Primed with Mr. Hobby Aqueous white surfacer.
I will use Tamiya Lacquer paint for the first time, but it is the only Italian Red that I found available at the moment of shopping for this model. 

I decided to mask all the surface radiators first (red is not the easiest colour to cover with another one).  

 

Shiny Italian red! I masked the rudder where the Italian flag will go, not knowing if the kit's decals could cover a red surface. 

Only six decals, that was really a quick session!!! 

 

With the masks removed, if you look carefully you can see some overspray here and there, this is another reason why I preferred to mask in this order, surface radiators are a tricky surface that is difficult to get tape to stick to. 

Even though it may seem the opposite, it's much easier for me to mask the red now. 

 

Surface radiators painted with Tamiya X-31 Titanium Gold 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronny is not impressed...