Thanks for the positive comments guys.
Work on the instrument panel continued today. I experienced a head slap moment when I got to the stage of meticulously cutting and applying the instrument decals shown in the below picture.
It was at this point that I went looking in my spares box from my earlier Kittyhawk III build that I discovered a partly used Eduard PE fret with a full instrument panel on it. So it was decision time - chuck what I'd done so far and use the PE panel or keep going. Given that I was pleased with the work so far and that throwing it out would have been a shame, my decision was to keep going. I did however, use a couple of PE parts from the fret (a small switch panel and the red toggle switch) and finished the thing off tonight. Here's how it looks:
Then it was on to the seat belts. As I didn't fancy the look of the molded bar on the armour plate (see last picture in post #29), I decided to lop it off and replace it with a scratch build affair that was more 3-dimensional and that would allow the belts to drape over it. Here's how that went:
After painting, I attached two pieces of masking tape cut to the width of the PE belts and stuck these to the back of the seat as the PE belts were not long enough to go all the way around. Lap belts were also completed at this stage.
Then, the shoulder belts were added after bending the tops to hook over the bar.
That's it for now. I hope to get the pit installed tomorrow and the wings on. I'm debating whether to scrounge up some parts for the wing bomb racks, or scracth build something, or just leave the rack off as they look complicated. Does anyone have a good close-up pic of this bomb rack?