:-) Thanks guys, I would love to leave the hood open but it's a time thing. The kit canopy is a single piece and far to thick to be posed open without some radical sanding, which would probably result in it getting broken. I have no chance of getting a vac formed one so unfortunately it will be closed. The cockpit actually fits quite well, without glue so I might do what I did with my Mk IIC and just snap it into place and wait until I can get a replacement :-)
Don't any of you 109 builders get any ideas about shooting down my Hurri, you will not succed :-)
Thanks for the heads up Scott, totally agree about the cockpit, the wing fit is annoying but I don't mind as the overall model and the variants offered more than makes up for it :-)
Mal