I have now glued the top deck in place along with the position of the machine gun ring. I realized with careful assembly, the gunners seat is designed so the machine gun unit will rotate somewhat and go up and down a bit. Seems like a nice idea but way too fragile and a bit of a pain, so I just glued everything into permanent position.
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1. This is the map tray in it's stowed position. Install from the back before gluing fuselage halves together.
2. Tray pulls out from under here.
Almost time to button the up the fuselage and glue the two halves together. However a few steps further and the instructions call out for installing a sheet of PE - a map tray, if you will - from the front of the pilot's seat and there's not much wiggle room. Talk about over engineering! I chose to keep the map tray in the closed position so it's much easier to install this "tray" from the back now before gluing the fuselage together.
In the process of all this, I broke the hydraulic hand pump lever off so I will have to make another.