Actually... I take that back. Do the wash on a GLOSS finish and you can remove it all if you want. Doing it on a FLAT finish might give you some tide marks.
I played around with fitting the Eagle Editions cockpit into the fuselage. First, I wanted to check fit of the kit without the cockpit.
The molded details on the interior of the fuselage walls has to be removed. I scraped it off using a curved x-acto blade and then finished it off with rough sandpaper.
The rear sill needs to be trimmed to accommodate the new sill. Once that is done, I stick the sidewalls into place using blue-tack.
Then the cockpit rear wall, front bulkhead and floor and slipped into place and secured with tape.
Hmmm... not bad. The junction between the rear sill and fuselage has be repaired but otherwise fit is pretty good.
That rear bar resting on the sill was sawed away from the resin piece since it seemed like it will obstruct the fit of the canopy. I may have to shorten it.
The wing assembly has a spar so I wanted to check to see if it would conflict with the resin cockpit. It did so I had to trim two of the mounting tabs on top of the spar.
Once I did that, the wings sat into place fairly well. The fit is ok but there are some gaps that will need to be addressed once it come time for glue, I'm guessing.
