Mr Hobby SM208 Super Dural + MRP 410 Aotake added. The aotake looks great over silver, but will build up to opacity on plain plastic as well (see tail wheel bay).
The cockpit floor has various additions and modifications. Behind the manual fuel pump lever (left of the flight stick) I drilled three holes for the fuel tank selector switch rods.
Eduard made a mistake in their instructions on page 9, detail C. The photoetch T-handle shutoff valves should not be glued to the emergency fuel pump (rear box-like detail on the right) but on the box ahead of it (which has the T-handles moulded in). In my case, I skipped the left-front T-handle as it is for opening the wing tank cooling vents, which were absent from late-production Nakajima-built A6M2s. Their corresponding panel lines on the lower wing (small rectangular shapes near the cannon bulges) will therefore be filled.
Some minor modifications were made to the right sidewall, including wiring for the radio controls, the missing loop aerial control (+ wire), the bracket for the tail hook retraction mechanism and the missing tail hook indicator box and wires. The proportions of the radio controls box were also altered to match the photoetch (to be added later).
More modifications were done on the left sidewall, including the addition of throttle pushrods, a pair of cockpit lamps and associated wiring, some added detail for the float blower valve, right below it (a missing tube will be added later).
The only modifications on the cockpit backwall are the substitution of the kit's seat with Eduard's 3D printed seat (the minute print lines are unfortunately visible with the silver, but will hopefully vanish with subsequent weathering) and the addition of the bungee cords behind the seat. I considered scratching the engine starter hand crank, which is mounted behind the seat, but I am not even sure if it was carried as standard (I assume it was only carried on transfer flights) and barely visible anyway.
5 attached images. Click to enlarge.
