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I've been building this kit at warp speed, well warp speed as compared to my usual build time.

To begin with I got this kit from a friend of mine who bought a collection about two years ago, and near as I can tell this and the others I bought with it had resided in the rafters of a garage for some years, but as the saying goes, "the glory is in the struggle"

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The build started out normally, nothing really jumped out at me till I started getting closer to the fuselage going together.

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I started with the wings, three parts each, but the flaps had a nice warp to them and the upper and lower halves had a slight warp as well.

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The I got industrious, and decided to pose the speed brakes open (this has since changed to closed) and I hinged them with straight pins....

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Now sometime in the past I lost the kits forward(pilots) instrument panel and had to scratch build a new one.

Once I got to painting I used an RLM semigloss grey for the front office color. I also reinforced the LONG seam on the forward fuselage with styrene stock

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one of our members here donated aircrew for this, and either the kits cockpits are out of scale or theres something wrong somewhere else. It took removing almost a third of the ejection seats volume to get the pilots fitted. But I digress, no one will notice it once its all buttoned up

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every part of this model has needed filler somewhere, even the parts that you didnt have to cement to another part to form an assembly

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This was my biggest worry, the vertical tail, it had me running around looking for creative ways to get it on and solidly attached.

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then it was on to front end again, the canopy ans windscreen glass were separate pieces from the frames, so I double bubbled them and made one assembly which caused problems later, and I'm slowly working this to a solution

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