The cockpit goes into the fuselage after the fuselage has been assembled, slotted in through the area that the weapons bay occupies. I also struggled to get the weapons bay inserted into the fuselage. I never could not determine what in the plastic that was removed was causing such a seam in the wing roots, but at the end of the day, the plastisurgery resulted in a much easier to deal with seam that I was able to eliminate fully. Dry fitting revealed this to be the case, so I took John's suggestion of cutting away the middle connecting legs between the intakes to eliminate much of the seam. John 'Jeaton01' here has this Voodoo kit in his blog where he points out that the way Monogram molded the air intake parts will result in a difficult seam to deal with along the wing roots. One of those challenges is in the intakes. But the kit is not without its challenges.

This Voodoo kit is a good one, with great detailing in the cockpit and wheel wells/flap bays commensurate with Monogram kits throughout the years. Being a native Texan, obviously I was going to model a Texas Voodoo, so this build represents a Voodoo of the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron of the Texas Air National Guard, 1980. Built out of the box with the exception of the decals, which came from a Caracals Decal sheet - F-101B Part 2: Minnesota, North Dakota and Texas ANG.

This is the 1/48 kit I had built this one many years ago, but as with all the other Century Series interceptors that I built in the past, that build was lost in the shelving collapse I experienced in 2006. I actually did two in different scales, but will post the smaller Voodoo in a separate post. I have completed the second in the Century Series aircraft, the McDonnell F-101B Voodoo.

Rf 101 voodoo avionics bay