Cockpit ... I was ready to throw this against the wall at one point.
The instructions are weak on location of parts, there are (again & obviously) no locating pins, parts placement is (as designed) poor & they don't actually fit into the space provided. I, quite literally, had to pull the cockpit apart, find the best photo's of Boomerangs undergoing restoration that I could (none of them had a decent image of the left side of the cockpit from the inside/right, so that is half-guesswork) & rebuild it based on the photo's. There are no transfers/decals for
any of the instrument panels & most of the colour call-outs for the control levers are either questionable or outright wrong. I didn't bother fixing up the incorrect lever colours but I cut up the Fw.190 cockpit control panels decals into individual instruments & used them to populate the Boomerang panels as best I could.
The seat harness is a pre-painted Eduard (I think?) PE set - the kit comes with a very similar, but unpainted, PE harness.
Here are the photo's of the salvaged item; the inside walls of the fuselage show where parts were removed & moved into the cockpit , where they were meant to be, but they're, luckily, pretty much unseen once the sides are together.
![](https://photos.smugmug.com/CAC-CA-14A-Sea-Wallaby/i-RcrCf7s/0/511b2864/XL/DSCN7711-XL.jpg)
![](https://photos.smugmug.com/CAC-CA-14A-Sea-Wallaby/i-63GRPkn/0/d74fba1f/XL/DSCN7713-XL.jpg)
![](https://photos.smugmug.com/CAC-CA-14A-Sea-Wallaby/i-7JC8NVR/0/4217cb60/XL/DSCN7716-XL.jpg)
![](https://photos.smugmug.com/CAC-CA-14A-Sea-Wallaby/i-jmQr9RS/0/a6319d3e/XL/DSCN7715-XL.jpg)
![](https://photos.smugmug.com/CAC-CA-14A-Sea-Wallaby/i-nzS5VZD/0/4e1dae4d/XL/DSCN7717-XL.jpg)
End result isn't disgusting but not as good as I'd have liked. Now I just have to insert some clear parts & fit the cockpit into the centre fuselage section as I put it together.
Yay! ![icon_crap :icon_crap:](https://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/Smileys/clabIcons/icon_crap.gif)
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