I'm part of the 1945 campaign and I am building the Hobbycraft kit with the Cooper Details cockpit update set. A really very nice set if you can find it, it has resin exhausts, a whitemetal tailwheel, photo-etch harness, resin barrels for the fuselage MG's and of course a very nicely detailed cockpit. The Hobbycraft kit has very fine recessed panel lines, a little too fine in places, and a rudimentary cockpit at best.
The Cooper's Detail set will update the kit very very nicely. The resin set is not designed for this kit, it's actually for the Monogram kit but I've found that it fits this kit perfectly.
I have removed all internal detail from the side walls squared off the back of the cockpit (as you would also do for the Monogram kit) and removed the mount for the instrument panel rounding the fuselage out for the new resin I.P. I had to cut and glue in some square stock styrene to make a surface to solidly attach the I.P. to. After gluing it I found that the cockpit sits pretty much smack on in the fuselage. A little filing was needed to get it to sit flush with the top of the side walls but I was impressed with how easy everything has fitted inside. No thinning down the fuselage sides to paper thin to get it to fit here! It will look pretty darn good once I've given it a wash and worn it a little. I've still to pick out the details but it's moving along nicely.
Check out pics for the details.
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Comparison between resin exhausts and kits. You can't see it very well but the ends of the resin exhausts are hollow!
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The exhausts are simple drop in replacements for the kit parts a little filing of the exhaust shroud on the port side is required for a decent fit in this area.
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The metal pin sticking out the side is a repair for the missing resin pin to mount the trim wheels and chain on.
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