This first shot managed to come out with a distinctly wintery air....
The A-Model is one of those instances where there is a good model there in the kit's parts, trying hard to get out. It is a limited run kit, and not, repeat not, for beginners. But with care you can get a quite nice model out of it. I was surprised by how well things fit, once all flash and unevenness in mating surfaces had been cleared away. Repeated test fitting and work on mating surfaces will pay off, especially with the wing pieces. The only bad seam was the upper surface wing joints with the fuselage; gaps were at least a quarter millimeter. The clear parts in this kit are ghastly; thick and damned near opaque. I worked the wind-screen thin with knife, and various grits of sand-paper, mostly on the inside, and finished with baking soda on twists of wet paper towel, and two or three Future dips. I made my landing gear from scratch: those in the kit are moulded to gear doors, which were absent in the subject of the model. But scratching the landing gear for this is probably a good idea anyway, as the doors are awfully thick. The cockpit arrangements are not too bad, though, and can be made to work without much trouble. The rocket rails are scratch-built.
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