[quote author=Russell Niles link=topic=11457.msg213757#msg213757 date=1598904534}
Lastly, have any of you that have both the Mengnut and the Roden kits, looked to see if the cowling in the Mengnut kit will fit on the Roden fuselage. Seems with the abundance of kit cowlings they gave us, that that error by Roden could easily and relatively more affordable be resolved.
Thanks for any replies
Russ
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Hey Russ,
I was wondering the same thing and IF memory serves, the forward fuselage on the Roden is about 2.0mm too narrow at the front of the upper deck on top. Fixing that may take care of what I'm about to write next...
I just did a test fit of the Roden firewall and fuselages halves with one of the Meng cowlings. The Meng cowl is just about 1.5mm larger in diameter than the Roden firewall. However, the Meng cowling is also very thin along that edge. It looks like one could run some 1mm strip to partially fill in the rather large circumferential mating notch on the Roden firewall, then marry the two. The mismatch is most apparent at the points where the lower cowl meets the firewall on either side. It doesn't look like too much trouble as long as you don't compress the lower sides of the cowling so much that it looks pinched. I expect that the fuselage fix for the Roden kit might result in a real decent fit for the Meng part, but we won't know until someone tries and for my bench that'll be a while yet.