painting under the canopy with the finished interior installed because
I always get specks and junk in there no matter what I do. I looked at
how the fuselage comes together
up front, and I realized that I could probably do all the fuselage
assembly before putting in the interior "module". There is indeed
enough flex in the forward fuselage to do that,
and it really simplified assembly. Gotta love that kind of kit
"engineering". The module just snaps in and no glue is required.
Notice how small the fuselage cockpit onings are.