The kit has a fairly complete interior for this scale. The pilot, offensive weapons officer, and defensive weapons officer's encapsulated seats are all provided along with the bulkheads separating the various positions. I painted the interior Dark Gull Gray, FS 36231, using Testors Model Master paint. The interiors of the escape capsules were painted gloss white with the seat cushions being done in Testors Model Master Green Drab. The kit does provide some sidewall details. These were painted flat black then a white artist's pencil was used to pick out the details. The seats and bulkheads were glued to the cockpit floors, then these assemblies were glued to the right fuselage half.

The two fuselage halves are glued together next. The tail is molded into the right fuselage half. A good idea except that it gave a nasty seam that was difficult to fill without losing surrounding surface detail. After the seams were filled and sanded, the cockpit combing was painted flat black before the windscreen was added. Hobbycraft gives the whole front canopy as a two piece affair in case you want to show the hatch above the pilot in the open position. I chose not to do so. All windows were masked using Bare Metal Foil. The Nav/Bombardier's Station and the DSO's Station are each covered by a clear piece. I elected to close these areas up so glued the clear pieces in place. If I had it to do over again, I would have only tack glued these pieces so that I could show off all of the work that was done in these areas. The 20mm Gatling gun was added to the tail cone next. 

The one-piece wing was next glued in place. There is a major gap to fill where the front of the wing meets the fuselage. This seam was filled and sanded. The engine pods were assembled next but left off of the aircraft until all painting was done. This is because of the major tonal variations present in the natural metal finish of all B-58s. These areas on the engine pods would have been impossible to mask and paint had the pods been added to the underside of the wing before painting The complex landing gear is next. Hobbycraft has done a good job of insuring that these pieces are easy to assemble and will give a proper stance to the model once the gear is added, a problem with aircraft kits with multi-wheeled main trucks. The landing gear legs and wheel hubs are painted aluminum using my own formula of 6 parts Floquil Old Silver, two parts Floquil Crystal Clear, and two parts Testors Airbrush Thinner. The tires were hand painted using Aeromaster RLM 66 Schwarzgrau. Believe me these were done a few at a time, as the B-58 was a true 18-wheeler! The MB-1 weapons pod was the last assembly.