Sorry about that. I'm actually quite a bit ahead of what you are currently seeing and I forget sometimes I need to explain why I chose the route I did...
Ok. First off I think I posted earlier my using lead fishing weight balls and epoxy in the nose. These current pictures show my use of aquarium plant weights, which are just strips of lead, and the places I glued them. The model is inherently tail heavy so a bit of weight must be added. Aside from the nose, as long as the weights are placed before or infront of the rear wheels, it will keep this plane from sitting.
For the foreward cockpit area, I search several photos from as many places as I could find and all dealing with the P-61A series. There are a few differences between the A and B cockpits that are not well known. I incorporated what I could from my research. One thing I did learn was there is a kind of push rod to the back right of the pilot's seat. I saw it in several photos but was not able to identify it or it's purpose. It seems there is an incredible lack of photos for the space just behind the pilot's seat and just infront of the gunner's chair. I finally contacted the president of Mid Atlantic Air Museum to help me identify this area. From him I found out that the push rod goes to a release mechanism in the pilot's chair that allows the back of the seat to fall backwards so that should the pilot have to bail out, he can. There is a bar that goes around the back of the pilot's seat that is not included in the kit so I scratch built it. I then made the push rod and attached it.
The ladder is another enigma. It is very difficult to find any information on it and how it's suppose to look. The kit has it wrong in this case. I learned what it looks like and how it works from MAAM. As you are facing the front of the plane, the ladder has a push rod on the left side. The push rod has teeth on the bottom part that fit into a half gear. The half gear is attached to the bottom folding part of the ladder. There are also two lubber handles on the assembly that the kit misses along with two red latch handles. To raise the ladder, the push rod is stepped on which swings up the lower ladder and it is clipped into place. The upper lubber handle is then pulled, swinging the ladder assembly upward. The second lubber handle is then pulled on bring the door to a close and the latch handle is turned locking the door in place.
I found only one photo of the R/O section for a P-61A. All others I've found belong to the B model. The R/O section on this model are based off of that photo and from what I've been able to figure out off of the B models. By the way, the kit is mostly based off of the A model. The B model looks completely different in the R/O section. As for the seats I posted earlier, those are made based off a photo of the actual seat and was virtually the same for both A and B planes depending on if there was turret on the plane of not.
The rear section of the model are concave due to the molding process. I didn't like it that way so I filled in the concave part and sanded all detail off of this area. I then used sheet styrene 0.020 thick cut into strips to add the ribs back. The walls were then redone based off of my research.
The signal lights I did this way because I didn't want to just have painted spots for lights. These were colored bulbs. I used stretched clear sprue with one end painted in the needed colors. I thought this was a decent solution. I'll try to add some passage when I can for future photos. Please feel free to ask or critique as I don't know a lot of things. I'm still new to building models and my skills are so so. :)