Jay @ssgt, thanks for the complement but at the moment this kit is making me feel like I do not know what I am doing LOL! I am almost done with the cockpit. This took a bit more work than planned because the fuselage is too narrow and I need to widen it. I still need to work on the engine inlet and exhaust area before gluing both sides of the fuselage.

Once the fuselage is glued together I think the rest of the build will go faster. At that point I will start on the Yak-15.

And in these shots, this is where I am at. Before closing up the cockpit area, the engines inlets and exhaust will need to be added. The front and rear areas will need to be opened for this to work.

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Nice work Bob, @v1pro . Seems like tedious work on such a small scale aircraft.

Excellent job, my friend @v1pro! Great looking interior!

Cockpit and fuselage progress. Glued the cockpit parts into the left fuselage side, I also added a glareshield and shallow nose wheel well which will also hold the weights to prevent this from sitting on its tail.

The engine inlets and exhaust areas were also opened up. The engine inlet was also glued into place.

Yes there are some pretty big gaps especially on the top of the fuselage. I wanted to widen this area, it looked too narrow if I glued it together in its original mold. Plus, the canopy, cockpit floor and instrument panel that came with this kit were too wide. I am happy on the width it has now.

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In the next two shots, I have to open up the inlet and exhaust panels.

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After the fuselage glue dried, I added some stretch sprue to cut pieces of styrene sheets to fill in the big gaps.

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