Tom, Unfortunetly the engine does stick out, not much but it does. I have balanced it and mine is tail heavy at this point. May change when I get alll the stuff in that goes in the nose. The grill does apear in one picture I have, but barely. I cut the gun hatch where the hold down latches are and cut them out then made latches out of thin sheet metal and made pins that I bent the metal over and glued the pins to the inside of the gun hood. Am going to use the rear earth magnets that I Told Kicken about to hold them closed. Thougth about doing the scale guns under the hood but can't find detailed photos of them. Probably welll once somebody reads this.