Not quite that much!
Cabane's are in and I'm quite happy how they turned out. The first step was to secure the model in my jig so that I could flip it over without the thing falling out. Two elastic bands did the trick.
Next, I flipped everything over and checked the length of the kit struts. They were too long by almost 3mm and, given that they were too narrow anyway, I was happy to toss them and replace them with rectangular rod. The rod below is the right length next to the kit part.
It was tight quarters getting access but after some fiddling, I got the front two in place. After they were secured, I dabbed the ends with thick CA to create a fairing. In hindsight, I should have done the back ones first as I discovered that I could only get at them from the front and I had to squeeze around the ones I had already put in.
Et voila. All 4 are in place and secured. It was also annoying to discover that the holes on the wing for the rear struts were too far forward which would have put the struts in front of the rigging points. A quick check of my references confirmed my suspicion that this was wrong so I had to move the connection point back and that's where they are now.
And now for some......cue scary music.......RIGGING!