Scale aviation modeller international

panel, Part J8, sealing everything

away...or so I thought!

The top panel’s join runs

along and across panel lines.

As it required some sanding

and filling to ensure a neat fit,

some engraved detail is lost, but

nothing that can’t be replaced

with your favourite scribing tool.

Stages Forty-four, Forty-

five, and Forty-seven deal with

the assembly of the instrument

panel (completed earlier), and

installing it in place along with the

compass on the underside of the

instrument panel. These stages

would also have you fit the pilot’s

gun and dive bombing sight, Part

I219, which is moulded in clear

plastic. This part is marred by

flash, and the sight lenses are way

too thick and marred by a mould

line right down the centre.

Fortunately, Eduard have

this covered. I first removed the

kit’s lenses from the plastic part

and then added the miniscule

etched mounting brackets,

to which I added the supplied

acetate lenses. The completed

assembly was then added to the

top of the forward fuselage.

The wings came next. Usually

the wings of model aeroplanes are

attached once the wings themselves

have been built, but not in this

case, due to the light and motors.

We start by creating a channel

in the wing root of the lower

wings to allow for the various

The fuselage top panel also needed some filling

and sanding

Inside of the engine nacelle

with my

modification to

provide a more

secure mount

for the motor

Wing bomb racks

More filling on the lower fuselage joint, and

the wires for the tail light passing through the

wheel bay

Unmodified part on the left,

hollowed-out part on the right

Gondola and lower glazing panel in place

After discovering the propellers were spinning

the wrong way, surgery was required to access

the wiring and re-adjust the connections

The bombsight fairing is

provided as a clear part,

requiring only the clear panel

to be masked

The wires all tucked away neatly(ish). The silver

thing is a screw; a magnet, glued to the panel,

connects to this

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