Hello Ivan,
The new position of the division between the nose and mid-fuselage components did its job successfully. There is no longer any pilot or canopy frame interference through the metal in front of the windshield.
Hereīs a blueprint screenshot - I still have to thicken some canopy-frame spars.
This would be the first part of the operation. I see you have an instrument console - at the moment I have the dashboard bitmap directly on the forward inclinded "floor" panel, but that can change!
Now for the second part, the mid fuselage, going aft up to the beginning of the aft-canopy slope:
If the mid-fuselage is a whole component from canopy-sill to the bottom, then the wing fairings canīt be glued to it in one piece, as they portrude aft. Neither will the glue sequence be able to include the exhausts. The Pilot, floor and canopy frame also need glue at the top, so itīs a bit difficult. Would it require further splitting up the mid-fuselage component?
For the moment itīs not working very well.
Of course... unless it is done like on the original model. Presumably you still have it this way:
Exhausts in Mid Wing R/L, upper Wing-Fairings in Inner Win Mid R/L, and lower Fairings in Wing Low R/L (correction: ...in Gear Centre), with the consequent issue of the wheel wells and their debatable display characteristics in Wing Low/LR and duplicated in Gear Centre.
Interestingly enough, the cockpit "floor" between the two canopy slopes is an entire part, which despite being slightly bent in a concave way, still displays correctly without disappearing.
Incidentally, in case you were to be interested, the .pdf article about the AiraCobra in Russia is here:
http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/englis...omanenko/p-39/
http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/englis...p-39/part2.htm
The before-last paragraph of the second part mentions the virtues of the aircraft as per Russian pilotsīopinions.
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
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