[AlanG]

Next up is the engine, pretty complicated with over 100 parts. Fortunately this didn't present any major problems, though. The only significant one was that the timing cover (assembly "Engine N") was too tall to fit properly against the engine block. (You can see the problem in the photograph on the front page of the assembly instructions volume 3 - a strip of the dark grey gluing land with a red dot is visible above the camshaft cover.) I trimmed off the top of part 80 to improve matters.





It was a bit of a tight squeeze to get the engine into the frame, but it did just about go. The result of my trimming the timing cover was that the mounting points on the front of the engine and frame didn't line up, so I fashioned an extra link to join them. Not very authentic, but it looks reasonably plausible, and will be quite well hidden once the side covers go on.