Good Evening All,
I got the engine detailed enough to make it look a bit more interesting under the cowling. Not perfect, but nicer than the kit. I used paper, plastic and some tiny hollow flexible rubber tubing sold in fishing supplies for tying tiny flies and midges. The bolts are all heat-pulled plastic sprue cut like little sausages to length with an X-acto blade and glued in place individually. I was going to use my punch set and some paper but I've misplaced my smallest punch!!!
The silver ring is several layers of paper just detail painted with silver. The leads are the aforementioned flexible tubing. The protrusions at the 12 and 6 o'clock positions on the crank case are folded paper. I also painted the crank case a deeper grey since this seems a more accurate color.
I think I'll tackle the prop blades and landing gear/wheels/tires tomorrow. I'm trying to get the little things out of the way that usually cause me to put something on the shelf when the airframe is all done!
Thanks for looking and more soon...Dan