How much of the electronic equipment should be accessable after completing an aircraft? Should I have a hatch adjacent to the receiver?

Can I put the fuel fill tube in the location as the real a/c? (I should put my project in my sig. so I don't have to keep repeating myself) Its an FW 190 which I think had the fill tube exit behind the cockpit like the ME 109. And what of the radio receiver? Can I put that where the real a/c would've had the pilot's radio? Or should I stick to the plans?
Thanks.

You should be able to access all of the electronics, receiver, servos, switch, battery. You should also be able to remove the fuel tank without cutting any wood.

Screw down hatch covers are OK.

On placement of the equipment, movement of the receiver and battery is your fist choice for balancing an air plane. With this in mind, make sure your servo leads and battery and switch leads allow for the moveing of components. Something like a switch, or a fuel dot/fueling port, are not easly movable later, so take that into consideration prior to mounting them. If the plans show locations for receiver and battery, that is a good starting point for them, but ready to move them later.

Items like bell cranks for linkages should also have hatch access in my mind. An example of this is a big Cesna 180 that a local guy's dad built years back, his first bigger airplane. The plane was never flown. The local guy donated it to our club in the hopes one of us would fly it and he could see it's maiden flight. Well, it turns out that the bell cranks for the ailerons and a bell crank for therudder were built in, but they are not functioning well enough to attempt to fly the plane. Being able to remove a hatch and have access to them would probably allow the plane to fly one day. Having to cut into the shaped wood fuselage and to cut into the wings is a major undertaking and no one at our club will attempt it.

Don

Thanks Campgems, the plans have all the gear laid out so maybe I'll stick with the way it's laid out until I have a little more experiance under my belt.

About the tank being removable, would that be through the front after the engine is removed? The plans call for a 3 sided box behind the engine with just the front left open. I was going to run the fuel line through the cockpit to the fillport like they did in the day.

Problem with routing the fuel fill is that you have to fuelproof any area where fuel might spill. Once it soaks into balsa it adds weight and weakens the wood. And all that fuelproofing adds weight and complication. You can use dope to minimize the weight. Much easier to put the fuel dot on the cowl or on the fuselage beside the tank.

Accessability is a wonderful thing. You tend to check more when it is easy and such things as loose connections or wear spots get corrected before they can bring a model down.