Originally Posted by
aymodeler
To my eye, the template you printed up looks a bit small. In the photos, the tapered portion near the top seems to stick up above the natural curve of the fuselage and actually comes closer to the forward canopy frame. But that is just eyeball accurate, so take with a grain of salt
Well, I can tell you that the width of the template is actually 121.5mm (well, perhaps not so sure about the .5 part, but I'm certain about the 121
). If the figure reported by John is accurate, then the size of the panel should be correct. And the former seems to match the 3-views that I had blown up to the kit size. So I don't know...
As for the position, that's a doubt I have as well. The photos that I posted seems to suggest that the panel should be higher, but when checking the 360° posted by bunsen one can see that there's a complete fuse former behind the instruments panel. And it looks to me like the top corners of the panel more or less line up with the outer contour of this former. Back to the photos that I posted, one can just about see the top of such a former behind the panel. When taking into account the perspective distortion, it seems to me like the corners of the panel do indeed line up with the edge of this former.
So I suspect that this should be the correct placement, but again, I'm open to suggestions.
And, by the way, I'm also open to suggestions about improving my english
Andrea.