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INSTALL THE NOSE-GUNNER CABIN
❏ 1. Glue together the plywood parts of the nose-
gunner cabin platform. Fit, but do not glue the
platform to the front of the fuselage.
❏ 2. Test fi t the molded plastic nose-gunner cabin
fl oor and cabin back to the fuselage. Trim the plastic
parts where necessary for a good fi t.
Refer to this photo while installing the rest of the
nose-gunner cabin.
❏ 3. Drill fi ve 1/16" [1.6mm] holes through the cabin
back where shown for mounting it to the front of the
fuselage. Enlarge the holes in the cabin back only
with a 3/32" [2.4mm] drill. Then, mount the cabin back
with fi ve #2 x 3/8" [9.5mm] button-head Allen screws.
❏ 4. Use medium CA to glue the cabin fl oor to the
plywood platform, but still do not glue the platform to
the fuselage.
❏ 5. Test fi t the nose-gunner canopy to the fuselage.
Trim the nose-gunner cabin fl oor where necessary
so it does not interfere with the fi t of the nose-
gunner canopy.
❏ 6. Paint the back of the nose-gunner tunnel fl at
black, or cut out the tunnel and cover the former on
the front of the fuselage with a piece of thin plastic or
paper that has been painted fl at black. Add any other
additional scale details you prefer or do any extra
painting that may be more diffi cult to paint after the
parts have been glued in.
❏ 7. Glue the tops to the ammo boxes, and then glue
the ammo boxes to the ammo tray. Glue the ammo
tray to the top edge of the cabin fl oor where shown.
Glue the kneeling pad to the post coming up from
the fl oor.
❏ 8. Add any other fi nal, scratch-built, scale details
you like.
❏ 9. Securely glue the plywood nose-gunner cabin
platform to the fuselage.
❏ 10. Glue the plywood strips to the bottom of the
battery mount to make room for the Velcro strap
that goes all the way around. Use the included Velcro
material to make a strap for mounting the battery to the
mount with 1/4" [6mm] R/C foam in between. Mount the
battery to the mount. Note: It is likely that, by mounting
the battery to the bottom of the nose-gunner platform,
little or no additional lead ballast will be required to get
the model to balance at the specifi ed balance point. If,
however, you would like to make certain you eliminate
or minimize any ballast required, you could mount
the battery later after you fi nd out where the model
balances without it. If this is your preference, set the
battery aside until it’s time to balance the model when
you get to page 41. Or, go ahead and glue the battery
mount to the bottom of the nose-gunner platform now.
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