Hi joberg, shaunsheep -- thanks again for not getting tired of seeing the updates.
Posting this -- may not seem much -- just the bell extension and the guide vanes but it was still a fight. In hindsight I should have fashioned
a jig of some sort to make it easier to glue the vanes onto the bulletnose. But as usual the lazy side of me won and as usual I regretted it.
Just dry fitting for now until I've painted the insides.