Uh... no - nothing corresponds to the location of those holes (sorry).



I think you were either misled by or misunderstood the directions. It's possible they are the locating holes for the older style, horizontal muffler but they have no use in the version you are modeling.

Rob;

Sorry to have to say this, friend, but you may have been "Dragooned" by Dragon! The D has long been notorious for having various mis-directions and procedural, as well as detail, errors in their instructions. Sadly, this may be one of these. And if so, I fully commiserate with any expression of anger and frustration you might experience from doing what they say, only to find later "Oh, we didn't actually mean for someone to do THAT!"

Not chiding you, of course, but this sort of thing has "trained me" to carefully search ahead in my D instructions whenever I see mention of "drill a hole HERE" or "cut THIS off" - I never do any such drilling or cutting until I have found what is supposed to follow that action! (There of course lies another risk - as folks building D Pz.III kits have seen and remarked on - where there are some tabs on the hull-tub that must be cut off to allow uppers to fit on correctly - but no mention is made of doing this... mis-direction can be wrong directions to do something or omission of direction).

My suggestion? Look carefully through all the subsequent steps and examine the pictures carefully to 1) see if there is something D has you attach to those holes, or 2) see if those holes show up in later step pictures. IF this yields no answers, then fill them in and move on - but don't do other assembly steps that will make that fill-in more difficult than it already may be until you have satisfied yourself about what you do need to do.

Bob