Thanks for all the great commits and I do really like the detail the Monogram put into this and many others we all built a long time ago. That being said This is a hole new kit with the five Eduards added to it. The seats that Monogram put in for the pilots are wrong.
Take a look at the B-29 at the Air Force Museum,
World War II Gallery Cockpits
The kit comes with a high back shell enclosed seat. The seats are tubular framed and straight backed. The Eduard sets look correct, but boy what a deal.
Talk about origami, sorry for the red circles, but each is a fold and I missed one when I started this morning. Actually I missed three but only one was critical to the build. The small arms that stick out and up in the photo are supposed to fold back so that they mated with the lower one that has bar with the holes on it and then the holes fold over that!
See, that all makes sense once you see the instruction for putting the seats together, RIGHT! Yeah, I still don't see it from that view either.
And then I broke it from all the fussing I had done. But I think it's fixed and this is the frame that the seat attaches to.
Here are the rest of the seat parts, minus the arm rest. This is the arm rest (with out the padded arm rest.
The seats (both) are laid out together on the PE sheet.
and here are the three main PE's for the seat.
Though Eduard called for the complete removal of both instrument panels, I am not going there. The face plates fit nicely on the kit IP's.