Well done Pete great choice! I've only put the fuse together so can't comment on the rest of the kit apart from the fact that all parts fitting tolerences are very tight!
I had trouble buttoning up the fuselage but it could be the way that I assembled my parts. There is also a known or well documented problem with the fit of the large wood piece B24 that sits in the pilots cockpit in front of the radiator. The part once glued in place leaves some very obvious join lines and really needs to be puttied and sanded once the whole cockpit is assembled. This is very difficult to achive a good result with the risk of damaging the cockpit internals. I'm going to leave mine as is, I can live with it.
Sean
I'm working on the early version, and had been forewarned about the challenge posed by getting the back wall of the pilot's cockpit (part B24) into place. While I didn't find the fit to be bad at all, it does leave a very visible join line where it simply shouldn't be in real life.
My solution was to glue the piece into place on the right side of the cockpit before closing up the nacelle. I chose to glue it into the right side as I wanted to add the wiring that comes off the control levers on the right side, and adding those after the nacelle was closed would have been much more challenging. Once the piece was glued in place, I filled and sanded the seam, and went ahead and painted all the wood grain.
Then, after the nacelle was closed up, I was left with a pretty minor gap to fill. In order to avoid damage to the completed wood grain, I used Apoxie Sculpt "Super White" epoxy putty to fill the gap. Then, before the putty set, I used a wet Q-tip (cotton bud) to remove the excess. All the excess was removed with no damage to the existing paint and leaving only a thin white line that needed to be painted to match the surrounding wood grain, which was very easy.
Mike
