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Greetings Wingy thingy people, I'm normally found lurking in the floaty thingy forum but I bought this kit from SHAR2 a couple of weeks ago, I was just going to wait until it was ready for RFI but the kit has a couple of minor issues that I'd like to share so a WIP seems the best way to go. I cannot due sprue shots because there is very little left still attached but I can take a pic of the box lid if you guys want! I did the usual thing of removing all the larger components and banding them together for the initial 'Look at wot I have got' bit. Straight away there are a couple of wing fit issues. The fuselage to wing join is pushed high due to a thick step in the wing root. The two halves of the elevators need quite a bit of thinning. There are a couple of short shots. The trailing edge of the main wing scales out to about 100mm thick and so on. I'll go through a few other bits as the build progresses. Bad kit? Nope, it's a lovely kit, I'm well impressed by it and the few minor issues that are present don't change a thing. All I will say is that it is not a kit that can be thrown together in an afternoon. The pencil line and hatching are denoting the area that will need to be sanded away to bring the wing in line with the fuselage join. I'm using a flat steel strip with some self adhesive 150 grit sandpaper to grind this lump down until the wing sits right. Sorry about the focus issue, but you can see the step in the two halves of the elevator. It took about 10 minutes of sanding and dry fitting above to end up with the picture below! Labour intensive but I wanted to preserve the surface detail! Next we have that trailing edge on the main wing, Both inner and outer wing sections are the same, I have the Eduard wing fold set which has detail panels for the edge of the fold and when I fix them in place I will sand the upper and lower surfaces of the wings to suit those! Next we have one of the short shots in the kit, this one is the guide rail behind the pilots bang seat, plastic strip will replace that after I've removed what's there at the moment. It should look like the far away rail. I'll leave it at that for now. I'm building this at work during my lunch breaks so it'll be weekend posts, but I haven't posted with you aircraft boys before so do you want me to continue with this as a build thread? would you find it useful? Or would it be best to just build the thing and post the completed model when done? Cheers for now. Jockster.