RE: TT New Version Decathlon Build
There is an oil cooler cowl bubble that pretty much got removed to clear the muffler. Too bad.
Anyway, still a great sport scale kit. I will eventually paint the struts and landing gear legs white.
You can see it covers the muffler completely without any holes. The instruction say to open up the left cooling hole so that the muffler gets a blast of air, but I don't see the point. It's got enough room around it to draw air. For the needle valve, I put a small socket head screw into the end of the needle screw, and drilled a small hole in the cowl. So all you do is stick an allen wrench into the holes to reach the head of the screw. Seems to work well so far.
I also mounted the windshield and skylight. Interestingly, it appears they left out the skylight instructions in the manual! No hardware I could find either. I just used some small screws I had lying around.