Hi!
Thanx for the compliments, esp coming from you. Your kits are a total inspiration for me. For the weathering... I used an oil paint wash thinned with turpentine. It dries to a semi gloss and best of all, any mistakes or if I overdid the weathering, I can just earse it with an eraser and do it all over again.
I also make sure I weather it according to how air flows on the aircraft... so top and bottom surfaces would be front to back, side fuselages will be up and down. One thing though, I do preshades so the weathering enhances the panels... without preshades, the oil wash would be pretty subtle.
As for the 72 'Cat... I haven't seen many built... I have 12 boxes of them lying around in my stash and I haven't dared to start one yet haha... so i can't tell you offhand whether it can be made to swing... interesting question though, I'll look at the instructions tonight. One thing that I am sure of is that if you want to show slats and flaps down, you can NEVER sweep the wings. The way they molded it, unless you can make hinges so that slats and flaps can slide in and out, there won't be a way to be able to swing the wings in and out and STILL have slats and flaps down. Pity. <_<
You can probably tell I'm a Tomcat phreak hahahaha