Thank you, Ken. Yes, I have been following your build, and Alexanders as well as this one :
http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewto...36_start_0.html
In rereading Gordon, I think the "navigator/radio operator and dorsal gunner" are in fact the same crewmember. This would put only three crew in the after compartment. Pretty sure there were four there in the prototype and maybe in the M-4, but changed with the improvements turning it into the 3M.
Now, if only I could find a kit I could afford.
By the way, have you seen Amodels TU-95M/U? Any thoughts? I really would like an early -95 as opposed to the Trumpeter 95 and 142's.
Some how it just looks nicer/meaner/better.
joe