Assembled the model over the past two days.
With things completed, I have to say that while the pilot's cockpit in resin is nice, it's hard to see much of it. If I were doing things over, I would have just gotten the resin bombardier's nose and the control surfaces. What's there in the kit is fine for the pilot's cockpit, and in fact the kit-supplied instrument panel is better.
When I attached the wings, I suddenly saw that there was no dihedral. The left wing did have the correct dihedral, but the right didn't. So I bent the wing up before the glue firmly set, and separated the lower wing/fuselage joint. I slipped in a piece of .020 Evergreen sheet and glued it in position, then trimmed it. That changed the wing dihedral to the proper angle.
I'm glad I didn't get the resin engines. You really cannot see enough of the engines once in the cowling to make that much difference.
Looking at the photos of the possible airplanes I will do, I noticed that they all had the individual exhaust stacks on the rear of the cowling, the large single exhaust on the outside was not there. I think this is a difference between early and late-production A-20Bs. I made some better exhausts with Evergreen strips.
Now comes getting ready to paint.
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