I assembled the wings.

Even if the fit is good, be sure to check that every part goes where it is supposed to. Some of them needs to be fit under the wing surface. I’ll wait with the lights until later, except for the three lights on the wing tip, which I nearly missed to put in place.

Then I started with the engine. Removing all the nubs and cleaning up took a while.

I read on a build that there was some issue with the push rod and after checking pics I realised that HK had made twice as many. There is as I understand it only two per cylinder.
I removed the parts for the other engine and will use 2 of the cleaned up push rod rings, and 2 rings where I’ll remove the push rods.
The reason is that the assembly will need all rings to fit later.

I’ll sort that next time a the desk!

I did some work on the backsides of some of the panels for the bombbay, painted the instrument panel black and sorted a few ammo lanes.

One strange thing is that the 1/48 scale version actually have a premade weight that goes with the kit! There’s none with this kit but I think there’s clear evidence that there was supposed to be one.

I measured 80g of bullets and put as many of them I could in the nose.

Then I used blue tack to hold the rest of the bullets that I put in the empty space behind the front landing gear well.

As can be seen I’ve also repainted the cockpit area with dull dark green.

I added the bombs to the side walls.

Then I assembled the bomb bay.

Lastly I added the ammo lanes to the rear gun.

I still need to paint a few more details and sort the mid guns. I’ll probably add a few wires to the guns as they seems to have that.

Hopefully I can soon start to assembly the interior and then the fuselage halves.