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First the timid and patented T.E. Bell irrelevant qualifier: In the very unlikely event someone followed my posts, they'd know I have this compulsion to explain how after quitting all social media acfew years ago, I just recently chose to allow myself this one British modelling site and one in the US (LSP). I could write an essay on British tradition for tolerance of arcane hobby passions and the support you gents give so freely to your fellow kodellers. I could make my case that American model forums are competitive and troll-infested. But I won't. At least, not now. Just know you are a kind lot and I will never return to US based model sites. And no, I've never personally suffered at their hands. Just seen too many other kodellers told discouraging things on the order of, "What dumb question, newby." There now, to the point: Much to my surprised delight, I just returned to a rare double build 10 years abandoned. Two F-84G kits, 1/48, Revell and Tamiya. Always loved the straight wing versions of the type (F-84F is swept and only shares the ttpe designation for some long forgotten political or funding reason. The Thunderjet was afflicted with every problem built into the first generation fighters, from a drag infested airframe design to the often fatally slow throttle response time of early jet engines. So I don't know why I love it. Anyway, I have AM decal markings and masks for coporful F-84E's in Korea. But the kits are G's. The differences are. minimal, but the only one I know for sure is that I will have to fill an engine bypass door, about a hal-inch square, and molded open. Simple. My plea to y'all (sorry. I'm from Texas.) is, were there other differences I need to address? Early E marks had a bubble canopy, though thesd failed catastrophically so often the had to be retrofitted with the heavily framed canopy of the F-84G. I have that mod covered as well. Any ideas, my learned Brit blood brothers?