I decided to close the fuse up before going any further. I taped off the open canopy areas from the inside and used liquid mask around the edges, just to be sure.
Without slight modification, the tail gun can only be positioned one way, easy enough mod though, if you wanted to.
The engines are simple enough. I just added a stretched sprue backer to the wiring rig and bent wire to run the rig all the way up to where it belongs.
The landing gears are very nice, a bit tedious, but nice. The fenders being the difficult part. The only attachment point is a tiny strip of PE that wraps the fender.
For the wing/boom assembly, the instructions give you a recipe for a headache, I threw em out! I cemented the (warped) booms, just up to the gearbay, then did the required sanding.
I cemented the booms to the upper/inner wing piece acroos the rear and only up the outer boom side. After cleaning up those seams, I was able to split the front open to install the gear and slip the engine in from the front.
The outer wing halves were then assembled, cleaned up and cemented to the boom. This took a bit of brutality and finess at the same time to get them to fit.
I still don't get why companies feel the need to engineer these things to have moving parts. Really makes for a PITA!!! The rudder, elevator, ailerons and outer flaps are movable, and the tailwheel is retractable......what for???? I love seperate control surfaces, but I like to put em on later. Anyway, I cut off the forward peg on the tailwheel, so it can be installed later, easing the masking process and less risk of damage.
