I started this year by building my first Tamiya aircraft kit, now i am on my second.
I am replaceing the kit cockpit with a resin one from pavla. The resin replaces the whole front section of the fuselage, which are seperate pieces in the Tamiya kit allowing for the different versions they produce.
Along with resin parts to replace the interior.
I am also fitting a resin bomb bay, also from Pavla.
Even though i have an Eduard PE set with pre painted parts, i decided to only use the IP and paint the rest. The resin parts are a perfect fit, not somthing i am used to with resin cockpits. You can see a gap between the upper and lower sections, behind the pilots seat. This should be blocked off by the end of the bomb bay, and fortunatly the Pavla one does this. But if you don't use the bay, this will need blocking off, which the pavla pit instructions don't mention.
And then with the bomb bay fitted, the fuselage halves were put together. A bit of a tight fit, but nothing major.
Just a little bit of cleaning up of the seams to do before fitting wings and tail.
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On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3