Irritatingly, it describes a pair of turbine assemblies that do not have any supporting tabs holding their halves together. Only on the following page you will see that as you fit them, there will be tabs on the base where these pieces will go. See the photo below: the starboard turbine is about ready for assembly and the round bit at the back provides a ridge that will slot into the turbine’s grooves.
A friendly reminder: test-fit EVERYTHING. At a glance, the tail stabilizers look the same for both side, but they are indeed side-specific. The ridges slotting into the tails are angled, so try each bit before gluing. And be sure not to use too much glue. That’s common sense but is extra important in this case because those doors that are resting in the bottom guide slot will be secured by those tails at the top. Just a drop too much and you’ll wind up gluing the doors.
Another note about those tails, the diagram in the manual indicates there’s a bit that fits underneath next to the main fuselage… but I simply cannot find the corresponding pieces. I’m guessing this is some kind of left-over from the original Forge-World resin version of the kit. For example, there’s a bit in the front corners of the fuselage that, even with camera angles in consideration, it will not align exactly as in the photo. I surmise that parts of the documentation are recycled from documenting the old version of the model.
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