Slogging down the trail just a bit more, I gotta show you guys how off target Trumpeter really is with this kit and these ridiculous seats. Look at the photo below. The left styrene seat with the head rest is supposed to be for the radar-observer and the one on the right for the pilot. Note the correct DeHavilland Hornet illustrations which shows the fold up observer's seat.

Thisthing with the Trumpeter seats is weirdly funny!
I still cannot understand what those kit seats designer was thinking...

Well, you've done your best, Eric. But then you get to that cockpit windscreen. Amazingly enough, if you look at the boxart, that airplane is portrayed correctly on most all the important areas! Too bad the box art designer wasn't given the assignment of designing the kit.

Tom: I wish somebody like Roy Sutherland would make a corrected canopy since he already did gas tanks and wheels. Better yet, maybe you can talk your Ukrainian model mafia friends into working on a totally new tool, accurate hornet kit in 48th scale.

Let's take a look at Trumpy's idea of the Hornet's landing gear and wheel well area. (Classic Airframes didn't do much better.) The photo below shows the partially assembled port side main undercarriage. It's a test fit only with no paint on the Barracuda cast resin wheel or the gear. The side walls have been painted with Vallejo silver and weathered a bit. I purposely rotated this image 180 degrees to show the gear in the down position.

Here's what the Hornet's landing gear and inside of the well really look like:

One might understand (but not approve in 2020) an oversimplification. What is beyond my understanding is the fact that Trumpeter put ficticious details to make things look busier, like this "box" the main strut attaches to... Why would they do that?
Waiting for your decisions on this, Eric @eb801!
You've done a splendid job on this dog of a kit so far!

@eb801 - John Adams, when he was running Aeroclub, did make a canopy correction for this kit. Sadly, Aeroclub is no longer active.