The cockpit, especially with the Eduard PE, is a tight squeeze into the fuselage. The fuselage halves have no alignment pins, so I glued it with Tenax a little at a time. I needed shims when I attached the engine nacelles. One at the rear on the top wing, and the other between the lower outer wing panel. If you don't add the shim on the bottom, the outer wings will droop. You can see this in the pics on the bottom of the box. I also had to trim the wing tabs to get a flush fit with the fuselage. I still needed filler (CA) on the tops of the seams.
The instrument panel coaming is PE, and I added the padding from solder. You can see that the wiring on the back of the instrument panel will be visible on the finished build.
The nose cone is temporarily glued for painting, and the engine cowlings are dryfitted. The prop on the left engine moved the cowl ring. These fit tightly enough to be held on while painting.
When it comes time to paint all three, I'll probably go through my whole new bottle of RLM 76 !
Thanks for letting me share the progress with you.
