Couldn't leave it alone... I added a gunsight to the instrument panel after all! It's a Quickboost 1/32 Revi 16B that I got from my spares box. The reflector glass is cut from clear plastic. The edges of the rear glass have been painted clear bluish green.
Also added the yellow fuel line on the starboard cockpit sidewall using a piece of lead wire.
Cockpit in place, the fuselage sides can now be put together.
If you look closely, you can see that the reflector glass pieces have been knocked off. This is one mistake that I seem to repeat with each and every build. Luckily, I was able to find both pieces and set them aside.
After a dip in Future to help clarity, I masked the one-piece canopy. Here is a quick and easy way of masking clear pieces that have well defined canopy frames. I cover a panel with Tamiya tape. I line up the edge of tape to one of the canopy frames so that I don't have to cut all of the frames. For this reason, you may want to select the longest canopy frame or perhaps the one with the weakest frame line.
After the tape has been lined up, burnish the other frames using the tip of a pencil. I use a mechanical pencil for this. This will push the tape into the recess of the frame AND provide a visual line to help guide the cut.
Using a fresh x-acto blade, you carefully cut along the pencil lines.
Here is canopy with the masking completed. I am leaving the little triangular window on the starboard side unmasked to represent the metal panel.