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1- Intakes; mold lines, big steps caused by slide mold, it's very hard to correct hem without damaging details. Huge gaps between fuselage and intakes.

2- Wings; you have to attach upper wing parts to upper fuselage first, then same process for the lower parts, otherwise you have to deal with a big step at underwing joint line.

3- Kockpit frontal panels; it's very tricky to add them to model without damaging anything after finishing it as described at the instructions.

4- Vertical stabilisers; these parts' locations aren't symetrical; at real plane, it's a single solid plane like a wall but at model, ventral fins verticals located at same axis but approximatly 1 mm offset to fuselage.

5- Clear parts; windshield at my example was 4mm narrower than its bay. This part was danger close to crack at fitting process.

6- Landing gears; replace the plastic pin which stops the springs with a metal one first, then forget the instructions and examine the real stuff 'cause at first attempt I glued almost everything at wrong directions, Trumpeter needs to publish a correction sheet for this section of their guide.

7- Pitot; you need to sand it before attact its location 'cause it's wider then radom tip.

8- Plastic quality; little parts cracks after using CA + activator !?!

9- Decals; high quality, need minimum solvent to settle. But at this scale I wanted to see all crylic things on them, not colorfull lines acted as markings.

At otherhand, you need few things to replace with aftermarkets if you want an accurate model, like wingtip pylons, seats etc; mine was OOB.

HTH

Ufuk

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1- Intakes; mold lines, big steps caused by slide mold, it's very hard to correct hem without damaging details. Huge gaps between fuselage and intakes.

2- Wings; you have to attach upper wing parts to upper fuselage first, then same process for the lower parts, otherwise you have to deal with a big step at underwing joint line.

3- Kockpit frontal panels; it's very tricky to add them to model without damaging anything after finishing it as described at the instructions.

4- Vertical stabilisers; these parts' locations aren't symetrical; at real plane, it's a single solid plane like a wall but at model, ventral fins verticals located at same axis but approximatly 1 mm offset to fuselage.

5- Clear parts; windshield at my example was 4mm narrower than its bay. This part was danger close to crack at fitting process.

6- Landing gears; replace the plastic pin which stops the springs with a metal one first, then forget the instructions and examine the real stuff 'cause at first attempt I glued almost everything at wrong directions, Trumpeter needs to publish a correction sheet for this section of their guide.

7- Pitot; you need to sand it before attact its location 'cause it's wider then radom tip.

8- Plastic quality; little parts cracks after using CA + activator !?!

9- Decals; high quality, need minimum solvent to settle. But at this scale I wanted to see all crylic things on them, not colorfull lines acted as markings.

At otherhand, you need few things to replace with aftermarkets if you want an accurate model, like wingtip pylons, seats etc; mine was OOB.

HTH

Ufuk

Thanks mate. Much appreciated!

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