despondman's Morane Saulnier MS-406 **Finished**

[despondman]

I am going to build the Azur 1/72 Morane Saulnier MS-406 'Battle of France' edition.



There are 4 options for this kit on the reverse of the box. I will be building the first/top option.
The second option is quite interesting as it is black rather than the normal camouflage colours. I'll leave that for another day.

[despondman]

To kick things off here are the photos of the parts decals and instructions.
Includes a small number of photo-etched parts, and resin wheels.

[despondman]

Finally made a start. Wings completed and cockpit part completed.
Never used photo-etch parts before, but it was pretty straight forward.
Can easily see why people do use photo-etch parts in the cockpit, but not sure I'd want to try with parts any smaller than the ones with this kit.

[tonp]

It looks a great plane, look forward to seeing it build.

[despondman]

A bit of progress. Cockpit finished and fuselage together.
Some fiddling was required to get it all to go together as cockpit to fuselage, and then fuselage to fuselage, was not a perfect fit.
Resulted in a small amount of filler being required along the nose joint.

[despondman]

The fit of the wings to the fuselage was almost perfect, just a small bit of filler on the underside.
The fit of the canopy however was pretty poor .

[despondman]

Not as far forward with this as I would have liked so time to get a move on.
The remaining PE parts are just too fiddly so I am not going to bother with them.
Have just completed the paintwork and after posting this photo will apply the decals.

[Molly-new]

Looking good.

[despondman]

So this is where I currently am, and my aim is to get finished today.

[despondman]

A last day finish.
Overall this was a nice little model, enjoyed making it, and like the colour scheme.
Didn't use all the photoetch as it was just too fiddly, the fit of the smaller parts occasionally required a little extra effort.

[PaulBradley]

Nice!