Starting off, I cleaned up the office parts. I had orignally planned to use one of my Quickboost resin seats, but upon comparing it to photos from Jake Melampy's book "The Modern Viper Guide" (best F-16 reference book IMHO!) decided it was way too short. Also, the way they molded some of the details of the seat meant removing them completely to fit the seat into the tracks. So, I decided to use the kit seat, which looks very good when painted up and detailed a bit. I am also planning on putting the pilot in the cockpit, which means I will not have to use intake covers or probe covers and RBF tags. But, that means adding some rudimentary hoses for Oxygen and one for his G-suit as well. To keep the detailing from bogging down the build, I am only adding things that (to me, at least) are noticable in their absence. Besides the hoses from wound wire, I added the switches on the control stick, the emergency canopy jettison T-handle in the recessed left side panel, and the prominent canopy locking mechanism and associated brackets on the left side rail. The canopy lock is a very complex shape to reproduce, so I simply took some styrene strip stock and rod and approximated it. Here's a photo of what I did in the cockpit...
