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Evening folks! It's been a good while since my last project on here (the Dynavector Wyvern - which is still languishing waiting for paint...) as modelling time has been pretty much non-existent for the past year and a half due to a pretty hefty change in career, which saw me trade my aspirations for a light blue uniform for a dark blue one and a move to the south coast. Thankfully things have settled down a bit now, so while I'm on holdover waiting to start my Observer training in the Spring, I thought it was about time I sunk my teeth into another big project to keep me occupied in the evenings and at weekends. So here we go once again... So here she is, Monogram's classic 1/48 Hustler kit, which despite all the well known issues with the kit such as the dodgy fit of the engine pods to the wings, the odd moulding bump in front of the windshield and the raised panel lines, still builds up to be an absolute beauty of a kit (not to mention an absolute monster... still haven't quite worked out where I'll keep the finished product or the other one I've got in my collection! ) As you can see I've also got the Fisher Models detail set for the kit, which includes replacement elevons, replacements for the kit intakes + shock cones, replacement exhausts and also the earlier mark of ejector seat. Early Seat: Replacement Intake: Fisher Exhaust vs Monogram part: The first job for this beast was to re-scribe the panel lines, which at first I was a bit apprehensive about, but really isn't all that huge a job. The raised panel lines on the kit are quite prominent and almost entirely straight lines, so this task wasn't too bad. Using the kit panel lines as a guide, two evenings of re-scribing and sanding were enough to get to this stage. There are still a few areas left to be scribed, but these will need to wait till the fuselage parts are joined together as the panel lines run across both parts, so I don't want any massive misalignments in my scribing. This is where she stands at the minute, and I'm now about to commence painting of the cockpit and undercarriage bays. At which point I've run into a small problem... Does anybody have a definitive answer as to what colour the undercarriage bays and doors should be? I've seen various walkarounds which show about four different answers to this question - white, overall aluminium, what looks like a zinc chromate yellow and a fairly hideous shade of green which I can only describe as looking like Games Workshop's old style shade which was called 'Rotting Flesh'... Just to add to the confusion, the instructions for the kit call for them to be in Medium Sea Grey! Any advice would be more than welcome on this subject! My other concern is that this is going to be a fairly heavy kit once it's all together, would anyone here who has previously built one care to comment on the strength of the plastic undercarriage legs? Would a set of metal replacement legs be necessary? Anyway, this little essay has gone on long enough now, hopefully some kind soul can point me in the right direction with the colours for the undercarriage bays/doors and by posting the build here it'll give me the motivation to actually finish a build for a change (I will finish my Wyvern! I will!!!) Cheers folks, Nik