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Be any of that as it may, these fuselage moldings present an infinitely worse problem - as you might have noticed at top, far upper-right, regarding the cutout cheek, and glimpse of a flat clear part:
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How could it get any worse? At right, note at bottom-left that (at least) the three central panels also are marred by lines, inexplicably scribed on the inside surface - which don't follow the canopy framing! To paraphrase Gus: "What manner of retard(s)" came up with this?!!
Meanwhile, at top I (try to) show how I was able at least to align the aft portions of the cheek parts flush with the fuselage - though it leads to maximum divergence, forward - while Revell, on their box photo (bottom-right), and I suppose in pursuit of at least some truth in advertising, fitted the front part as well as possible - to show a whopping, mismatched joint remaining along the top. But even this really doesn't honestly depict the (lack of) fit, hiding as it does the truly god-awful top - which you know how terrible that's going to look!
Time to back up and remember just what we want to build, here:
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So, does this stop us cold? No - thanks to yet another recently-made spare part, coming to the rescue: a clear nose cone (bottom right) from my RAAF Boston-II refit exhibits very compatible contours to replace the top- and forward side areas - which are certainly all those most crucially needing replacement, including doing away with that heavy, first top-fuselage frame, entirely. Note that once that's done, and the replacement actually fitted/snugged into place, it will probably stretch far enough aft to replace all but the last two columns of windows - thus eliminating all panels suffering from those obnoxious scribe marks, as well!
OK, so that's one problematic kit - but it has finally come to rest on the one bench fully equipped to whip its sorry, offensive a** into (hopefully some excellent) shape!
Cheers,
-Matty
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