Top of the day to you Joe,

I feel your pain as I experienced this a short while ago. Here is what I did..

I attached the hinges to the body first. I placed them approximately where they show in the pictures. I used a small amount of 5 minute epoxy and applied a blob to the hinge mounting surface. I lowered the hinge arm over the side of the fuselage and attached epoxied end to the inside. After attaching all three, I lined them up to where the hinge flat surface of all three hinges was in the same plane. You can also look from the front side and sort of eye them in. you should be able to see thru the small holes in the arm and all three will/should line up. You would have to this kinda fast if you use 5 minute epoxy.

After the epoxy is set, I place the door on and tape it to the body. Now turn the plane over and from the top apply blob of epoxy to the hinge mating surface and attach it to the door, wait five minutes and now you have a hinged door.

One very important thing. Make sure the liner does not extend beyond the door. Sand the edge of the door (hinge side) to where you would have 1/16th gap between the door and the fuselage (ask me how I know....[sm=48_48.gif]. Also sand the same side in an angle to where that edge is thinned out a bit.

Did you get a bag of small screws (36 pcs) with your kit? If so, you would want to screw the doors and the fuse to the hinges. If you look, there are couple of small holes on each side of the hinge. That is what they have done for me on the F-15. I think I saw a bag, but I can not find it [sm=punching.gif]. once I find them, I will install and use hysol on the backside of the hinges to reinforce them.

The front door was a bit tough for me, but I got it to work. Were you able to completely close the door with the gear in place? On mine, the front screw heads hit the door liner and would not let the door seat, so I dermalized [sm=lol.gif] the liner