OK as promised I have started adding Pictures to my Hasegawa Val on line build. Feed back, questions and comments here please.
Aichi D3A1 (Val) on line build

Mal

Howdy,Mal! Is that the Ares AM on the Val as well? As to your formidable abilities, see my earlier post re: your Mossie build. My typing fingers are speechless...

Hi Mal

Great start on the Val. The drybrushing is really starting to lift out the detail on the new cockpit parts.

I'm really looking forward to seeing to this one finished!

What are you planning for the camouflage scheme?

All the best

Rowan

Looking good mal. Like Rowan said, what type of paint scheme are you going to use? Wingman out.

Robert, no, both the cockpit and wing fold are by CMK , both very good and well detailed. The only disappointment is the vac formed canopy, it really isn't clear enough and it's closed. I don't understand going to all the trouble of designing a cockpit detail set but supplying a closed canopy. I have started to seperate it into it's veriouse parts, but one slip and it's toast. As the kit canopy is provided with the open option, and looks very clear, plus its pretty thin, I'm planning on using that.

Rowan, yep the dry brushing lifted the detail nicely, I have actually done a bit more detail painting and it's really beginning to look the part I'll post those pics soon, probably Friday or Saturday :-)

Wingman, I would like to do Lt/Cdr Egusa's aircraft, flown off the Soryu, as leader of the second wave dive bomber units, during the attack on Pearl Harbour. There are 2 possible schemes, the one I would like to do Has large red flames on the fuselage. John, from White Ensign Models has sent me some of their new paints for review. He asked me what scheme I was doing and he spoke to someone who knows alot more about this subject than most. It appears that this aircraft in fact had a yellow fuselage with red flames. That would make for a very striking model :-)
Mal

I have added a few more pics
Mal

Loking forward to seeing the finished model, Wingman out.