Next I wanted to see how the cowl was going to be, once painted. To done this, I needed to make the carb intake, needle, filler valve and fuel check holes prior the the painting process.
I've used a special car putty to smooth out the wheel pants and the cowl, as they're all going to be painted. Once the putty was applied, sanded, washed, applied and sanded again, the surfaces are ready to be painted.
Just to keep things "tidy", I also wanted to paint the firewall and the muffler tunnel of the same color of the bottom of the fuselage.

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