In the course of building the cockpit I started to have a bit of a problem trying too get the Pilots seat to fit correctly. I haphazar4dly got it to stick where it is supposed to be and I laid it aside only to find out later that it had a mind of its own and wanted to lean against the pit side. All I can say is that the pit is fairly fiddly.
Ill get to massaging that part to move back into place later. I did get the side walls of the starboard pit to fit up well. added a bit of color and installed that seat.
I did manage to get the fuse together after all of this. The center section contains one bulkhead and three pieces of frame work that supports either a set of bombs or a couple of fuel tanks, the latter is used to display the B-4 photo recon version
of this plane.
The frame work can be seen here on the left side of the fuselage while a glazed port for a camera system which the kit doesn't contain.
A downward facing camera port is also installed in the nose for the P/R version also.
I apologize for the out of focus photo but now you can see the bomb bay framing.
The wing assembly went together with out much hassle. It has a single piece top half
And a two piece lower half with the oil coolers on each one.
Now the fit of wing to fuselage is another issue. Try as I might I just couldn't get it to fit properly
Gaps on the underside as well as the top.
Studying this further showed that the bomb bay frame work to be a bit high and requires some sanding to get them to fit properly which I have done and is now clamped up to allow the glue to dry. I am sure that somebody with more experience in modeling would be able to come up with a better solution than I did.
More later.
Cheers, Paul
