Minor update of what I think is a major step in the build proces. The fuselage has been glued together with all the interior bits in it. A little make shift seat has been made out of tamiya tape. It still needs some color to it and perhaps isn't totally to scale, but it works for me. Plus, with the major sub-assemblies dry fitted and taped to the recently glued fuselage...it all of a sudden starts to look like a Bf-110 real fast
Also, now that I've settled on Jabs' a/c around late April '44, here's also some additional reference material on how his a/c at the time might have looked. The caption that goes with this picture say this is Jabs exiting his aircraft while visiting Schnaufers Gruppe @ St. Trond. I've extracted a few bits of information out of these pictures. Upon this I hope to base the colors I want to use for this build, plus some artistic license/educated guess to decide upon a few other things such as colors of the unit markings, victory markings, Englandblizt emblem, and radar equipment.
1. Obvioulsy (assuming this is indeed Jabs' a/c) the a/c sports the chevron of a Geschwaderkommodore
2. his a/c has the Schrage Music 20mm cannon in the back of the cockpit.
3. As far as I can tell Jabs a/c appears to have the typical RLM76 on the fuselage with a what appears to be a rather rough (not the typical German splinter style) RLM74/RLM75 camo pattern on the upper part of the fuselage, and if you look closely most likely also on the wings. These pictures don't show any heavy mottling on the fuselage sides, so perhaps no mottling, or at best a very lightly applied mottling. The a/c looks quite a bit different compared to the pictures of Jabs mount in April/May 1945 (picture also included of his kite after it was belly-landed in Sweden, this was RLM76 overall with a rather light mottling all over)
4. the date of this picture has to be between late March 1944 and late June 1944 (well within the time-frame I looking for) If you look closely at the Ritterkreuze of both Schnaufer and Jabs you can see Jabs already has oakleaves added to it (awarded in late March 1944), Schnaufer on the other hand does not yet have the oakleaves thingy added to his Ritterkreuz (Schnaufer received the Oakleaves in late June 1944)
That's it for now. If anybody thinks I'm missing the mark as far as my assumptions go regarding Jabs' a/c or if somebody has any additional info (werk.nr any1?) on Jabs' a/c at this time feel free to let me know.