Hasegawa Nakajima B5N Kate
Kit 09553,
folded wing version
The interior together and the fuselage buttoned up. I was not
looking forward to masking the cockpit openings and cleaning up the
seams around them to do the upper deck
painting under the canopy with
the finished interior installed because I always get specks and junk in
there no matter what I do. I looked at how the fuselage comes together
up front, and I realized that I could probably do all the fuselage
assembly before putting in the interior "module". There is indeed
enough flex in the forward fuselage to do that,
and it really simplified
assembly. Gotta love that kind of kit "engineering". The module just
snaps in and no glue is required. Notice how small the fuselage cockpit openings are.