Thanks Borsos! Wings and legs will be up very soon--in fact next, after a bit of minimal work on the front fuselage deck last night.
I added the windscreen and synchronized Lewis gun, as per photos of 872. Navarre used different gun placement on his several Nie.11s. Most had top wing-mounted Lewis guns, but 872 had the Lewis set up on the front deck ahead of the cockpit, and incorporated a synchronization system called Alkan. I used the gun and synchronization block from the Copper State Models Early Nie.XVII, which includes a few different Lewis guns (including, conveniently an Alkan-sychronized Lewis). I plan to build a wing-mounted version of the CSM kit, so a suitable donor was available.

CSM did a nice job with the Lewis--very delicate and fine. The windscreen is from the PE fret from the SH kit. Here is the updated fuselage:

It seems like an awkward placement for the Lewis gun in terms of having to reach over or around the windscreen to change mags, but I guess better than having to stand up in the cockpit to change mags on the top wing-mounted Lewis.

Makes you wonder how they ever did that with the strong slipstream even at low speeds. I would likely have fumbled around and lost the magazine overboard, if I didn't fall out myself in the process first!

Then again, I'm not in my early 20s like most of these pilots were. Still, pretty amazing activity while piloting the aircraft in combat, when you stop and think about it.
I am currently building the jig to hold the fuselage and lower wings in proper position for gluing. The little pins will be of insufficient strength, so I am studying using a narrow bead of epoxy along the wing root. I plan to try an experiment first with rolling a narrow strand of JB Weld epoxy putty (the white water resistant version that works with plastics) and see if that works. My thought is that there is a small gap between the fuselage and wing root, and a thread of putty epoxy might fill that as well as give a stronger bond between wing and fuselage. It's also less messy than liquid epoxy, which could end up all over the place. Any thoughts out there, sports fans? Anyone ever used JB Weld epoxy putty on a model? Any other ideas? I will experiment relentlessly before committing glue to the model itself, so any suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers,
Bob