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Here is my latest "Bench Blocker"! There are a LOT of things I`m not happy about with this example of my ill spent leisure time! However, I have learned from this experience, and my enthusiasm and Mojo are still intact! I think the basic kit is above average for under £8, but not say £10+. There is some nice scale detail but there is an amount that needs improvement, there are some baffling omissions from a "New" version of an existing kit, for example, FAA specific fuselage vents, correct prop, correct drop tank and I would have liked more than one choice of subject on the decal sheet, with a bit of thought the manufacturer could IMHO, have included a couple of bombs or launch rails for the rockets that late Mk IV Corsairs were capable of carrying and that would have covered Mk II and Mk IV aircraft, but for the price, I suppose it is par for the course. The other failures are down to me. The aeroplane should be gloss sea blue, but I just couldn't get a good gloss finish with my choice of acrylic gloss varnish, so after half a dozen fails I flatted everything off and started on a Spitfire! I tried the hairspray weathering method for the first time on this kit, which I actually enjoyed, and I will use it again where appropriate, I overdid it, experience again, one minute it was like trying to remove excrement from a blanket and then "Bang" and the dirt was gone, back down to bare aluminum! I cracked the very fragile canopy, my repair is not invisible! Never mind, there is always vac form AM available. I used stretched sprue for the antenna wire, it looked thinner than a human hair on the bench, on the kit it looks like they are putting up scaffolding.............I could go on and on pointing out where I could have done better, but, I now have two more of these in the stash, along with vac form canopies, and I didnt use my AM decal set, so I can, in the best "quantum leap" tradition "go back and put right what once went wrong" Anyhow, here`s the fots.................... F 15 c Aggressor getting a look in! Ta for lookin` no "G" Granto
