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Drop tank installation 99% complete. Screwed the pylons onto the wing instead of gluing so that in case of crash, damage to wings would be minimal. I cut small access holes under pylon 'footprint' so that I could glue plywood blocks under the wing skin for screw retention. I slipped the predrilled plywood blocks into the hole after applying glue (Thin CA which is several years old and is now a 'medium' CA...) using a thin ply stick. Then I screwed a self tapping screw with a couple washers down through the wing mount hole and tightened the block up against the underside of the wing skin. Waited till it was dry, snapped off the thin ply stick and removed the self tapping sheet metal screw. Ta-daaaa. Mount point complete. Did this on all four mount points then glued the removed access hole pieces back into the access holes.
Probably will repaint tanks but used some Model Master #1452 Metalizer Lacquer (Stainless Steel Buffing Metalizer) that I had laying around. I did a slight buff on the tanks and stuck the red thumb take the kit provided for the fuel tank cap. Not very scale but gives some perspective I guess.
Extremely thin piano wire comes out the back to provide release of the tanks.