The cockpit is all together and unbelievably it all fit in the forward fuselage without any foolishness whatever. The big clamps are just to get the best seam possible, the thick Hobbycraft plastic can take the stress. Still raining, the garage project is at rest, just keeping all the lumber that isn't already up covered.
The resin seats had ejection loops but of course I broke them off almost immediately. I made new ones out of brass wire and painted them with Tamiya flat yellow. While the yellow was drying I looked through my old brushes and took a likely candidate with synthetic bristles and cut it down to about two hairs. I used that to paint the black stripes. I'm going to save that brush.
