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I have decided that I'm going to be a good little Minion for a change and stick with my assigned country for my build and that country is Greece. I have quite a few kits that could be built in Greek markings for their time since joining NATO, but before the usual suspects chime in with usual mantra I will NOT be building them all! I have selected the Northrop F-5A as this was a very important type in Greek service and a very long lived type in service too. Due to it's longevity of service the F-5 wore a great variety of schemes in Greek service, from overall aluminium to air defence greys and most ones in between, helped by the fact that they received some aircraft second hand from sources such as Iran, Jordan and the Netherlands. I have not 100% settled on a scheme yet but at the moment an ex-Jordanian aircraft in a heavily weathered Asia Minor scheme (one of my favourite post war USAF schemes) is my first choice with an equally weathered SEA scheme second. My chosen kit is the Kinetic 1/48 one which has been around for a few years and looks to be quite nicely detailed and going by other builds I have followed goes together in a fairly trouble free way, helpfully it also comes with markings for several Greek aircraft although none of them are in the schemes I am interested in but that shouldn't be too much of a problem as they don't carry unit markings and I have plenty of decals to cobble together the correct tail numbers. So without further ado here are the usual pre-build pics starting with the box top; The as yet unopened contents still in their plastic bag; And the rather nice deal sheet with lots of wonderful options; In fact the only non-eligible options on the sheet are the South Vietnamese ones, I can see a lot more of these in my future if this goes well. I have some aftermarket on the way in the form of a resin seat as these had their original seats replaced by Martin Baker Mk.10's and there is also a Master set for the guns and pitot probe, these are currently at the mercy of Royal Mail somewhere. I have to finish a Belgian Spitfire first but hope to get started soon. Thanks for looking in and as usual all comments and criticisms are gratefully received. Craig.