Alrighty then, having bit off more then I can chew in one mouth full twice now, I decided to get my feet back on the ground and try something a bit more realistic........sssooooo here is the much promoted Arma Hobby MK I Hurricane kit. I cheaped out and got the basic kit, as for my display purposes it should be more then adequate.
Much to Arma's credit they broke from the norm and chose to start the construction sequence from the gear bay, this makes perfect sense though, as the roof of the gear bay also doubles as the floor of the cockpit with a few nigglies attached, such as the control column........
One issue with this kit is, aside from the fuselage, wing and lower cockpit framing as seen above, is the alignment peg holes are to small for the pegs. Not shown as I didn't take pics at the time is the ones for gear bay walls are square, so my advice is to shave them off and use the upper wing attachment to align things. Another of the other issues with this kit is that according to the instruction one is to attach the landing gear before assembling the wings which, of course, does not bode well for the survival of said landing gear, or masking the bay off for painting. Apparently it is possible to thread the landing gear in after assembly, but that is more akin to threading a camel through the eye of the needle gate.
It was at this point I realized the alignment holes were to small here, but using a .06 Carbide bit worked out well
As can be seen here, the landing gear attachment point is really good and fool proof, there are 2 tabs at the top of the attachment that prevent the gear from going in to far so it doesn't matter how much or little one shaves off the top, these do make things more difficult in threading things through.
Everything in place.
My solution to that problem was to cut the ram off and glue it in place. Once everything is built up and the landing gear installed this won't hardly be visible unless one is really looking for it, if at all.
For the gear bay I decided to try out Vallejo's 71.063 Silver RLM 01, which under a coat of Tamiya's Lacquer Flat Clear looks pretty convincing.