Thanks MT, Sean and Petarb!
Here's my post from SSM:
It seems the amount of work is inversely proportionate to the amount of photogenic updates today. What rescribing that needed doing was completed, as was a thorough sanding with 400-grit sandpaper.
Forgot to show this in the last update:
Greebled cover to hide gaping hole between the pipes
Although I Was able to carefully assemble the cannon muzzle assemblies to prevent major gaps, I never quite liked how the area looked. Thinned Aves and other goodness, combined with cannons that would have, in the "real" craft shot though the fuselage, made for a modeling problem area there. I finally chopped the forward barrels off, added a sheet metal lip, faired in said metal with CA cured with baking soda, and smoothed the inner area with some black tinted, thinned Blessed Aves. I made new cannon barrels (not pictured) from steel tubing:
Black Aves goodness
Finally, the canopy is secured and faired in with more thinned, holy Aves. All RCS assemblies are finished:
Pilot in front office and a few RCS assemblies visible
Comments are criticisms welcomed. I am going to bed.
Kenny