Thanks very much John.
I didn't get much modelling done this week - combination of stiff hands and lots of other things to attend to.
But I managed some measuring and trial fitting today, and also painted and installed the radios, as shown in the pics.
Most of the time has been spent checking angles and fit for the scratch-built ammo boxes and feed chutes for the waist guns, as well as working on a very basic representation of the 'Gee' monitor.
As visibility inside the fuselage is limited, especially the area behind the cockpit, the 'Gee' box will be just that - a plain, painted box, to the correct dimensions, but lacking detail, as only the sides and rear can be seen, ad then only as a vague shape.
Likewise, the waist-gun ammo boxes will be plain affairs, constructed from plastic sheet and channel, with shaped channel to represent the flexible ammo feed tracks.
This stage has taken a lot of fiddling, and checking angles, as the feed chutes need to be fitted to the guns first, and then the feed chutes, guns and boxes fitted to the fuselage, with the stubs of the cut-off barrels protruding through the slots in the waist windows - resin barrels will be attached to the stubs later.
I've decided not to make and fit the two gunner's transit seats, as they won't be seen, unless a torch is used, and some contortions employed to see into the shadows beneath the bomb bay rear bulkhead.
Once these fiddly bits are done, the cockpit can be detailed and fitted in place, and then the fuselage halves can be joined, before turning attention to the separate nose compartment, where detail
can be seen, albeit slightly distorted, through the large clear canopy.
After a Chinese 'take away' and half a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, I now don't feel much like modelling, so i'll have a break and continue tomorrow !