Great start, love the engine mods

Thanks @blackadder57 and @lgardner!
You are not even allowed to breathe without QC green light!
My Nichimo copy even had rust remnants at spots (from the rusty molds)...
Maybe it was a not so well taken care of copy.

This build is just starting to sink in on me (sorry, could not resist). Your engine is lookin good, bet it is looking good up close too when it gets the @fiveten treatment with proper QC.

Glued the wings to the fuselage. Fit was very good.

As you can see, the two mounting lugs protrude well enough inside the empty area.

They will be used as supports for the cockpit floor I will attempt to construct.

After reading build reviews (the three excellent Paul's @yellow10, Marvin's @marvin and Roland's @rosachsenhofer among the few others)...

...and also after browsing extensively at the net (info and photos), I came to the conclusion that the Jake cockpit will look NOT very different than the Val cockpit.

Indeed, given the fact that they were both Aichis with broadly (ok...very broadly...) similar roles, designed and developed at broadly the same time frame, can lead someone to think that there will be quite a few similarities with the two cockpits.

Given the fact that no way this canopy will be open, I felt happy to conclude that trying to replicate a Val cockpit in the Jake might be passable under a closed canopy.

So, with the (previously built) Hasegawa Val instruction sheet at hand, I am off to my leftover kit bits dungeon to see what similar "bits and pieces" I will find.

I am sure a suitable "floor" will be found.

For the walls, i will use my sons' party dishes flat parts...ooops! sorry!...meant sheet styrene! (lol!) augmented with stretched sprue.

Ok, off to my leftover parts now...

...how about this Mach2 Do-26 console-ish attempt? O tempora! O mores!

All the best, Great EoJ GB!

I love your works!

Thanks my friend Louis @lgardner!

I still feel the urge to scratrchbuild, knowing that the outcome will be a ficticious approximation at best!

Being it a closed canopy will even more "approximate" the above ficticious approximation (lol).

So, I took the "let's have some fun and see how it will turn out" path.

I am embarased to post the following pic, but, here is the first batch of finding possible bits and pieces that may be used in the cockpit after heavy modifications:

Of course, many more parts and auxillary pieces will have to be scratchbult from styrene.

Let's see how this mad-and-not-recommended approach will turn out.

All the best!

PFP is fantastic, great! And is officialized!
Thanks my friend @airbum!

Thanks Louis @lgardner!