Thanks guys. Today I finished off the pit and glued the tub together.
Planning ahead and to ensure that I would not get fit-up issues, I taped together the fuselage and cockpit halves to see how the parts lined up. It turned out that line up is pretty good so I decided to proceed with gluing the cockpit halves together and then attaching the finished assembly to the fuselage halves later. To facilitate this, I would leave a bit of a gap in the rear bulkhead to allow adjustment as the pit was slightly wider than the fuselage toward the top. More on that later.
A this point, I let my anal side take over and I plunged into adjusting the line-up of the radios to match the manual picture I posted earlier. The below series of pics shows the sequence, starting with how the part looked before surgery. Cuts were made to separate the 4 short and long wave receiver and transmitter boxes from the rest of the units and them everything was reattached in the new positions, using card where needed. The last pic shows the finished panel painted up.
Next, more detail was added to the pit. The gap at the front of the hatch behind the radar operator's seat was filled with a piece of card shaped to match the curvature of the fuselage and lightening holes were drilled in. I had no reference for this so used some artistic license here. Seat belts were added along with boxes on the seat backs that might or might not have been part of the shoulder belt attachments (artistic license again). I also had no idea how the lap belts worked on the body-formed pilot seat so speculated that the attachment points were on the inside. I didn't fuss too much about this since it will be hard to see anyway. I also ran out of PE belts for the R/O's seat so I made my own using tape and lead wire.
The IP was then installed and test fitted before gluing securely. Fit is very good with no needed adjustments. Also seen is the auxiliary control column which may or may not have been present on this aircraft (prove me wrong - please!). This was fashioned out of rod and lead wire at the grip.
Finally, satisfied that everything that could not be installed from the outside was now done, I glued the cockpit tub together. In this shot from the back, you can see that I filed a wedge-shaped gap into the rear bulkhead that will allow me to adjust the width of the fuselage at the top so that I don't get a step where it meets the fuselage.
Thanks once again for looking in. Tail wheel details next.