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Stuart wrote:Two good looking bugs there Mike!

Thanks Stuart!

After talking to someone who had built the same kit, I had to check out the landing gear and they're fit into the fuselage. The mains will need some work to get right and they all need a lot of clean up. Quite a bit of flash on them too.

More fun!

yeah, fun like a root canal by the dentist in Running Man! I hate trying to clean up landing gear.

Got two of the three cleaned up. They obviously need to be painted. The main gear is the worst. Lots of missing details, some of which I can fix.

Most manufacturers simplify the gear a lot. F-18 gear is fairly complex so.....

Medicman71 wrote:

Yeah it's not even close to that Stik. Out of curiosity, why don't people make landing gear sets in resin?

I would guess that resin by itself is too brittle, especially at weight bearing stress points like the wheel axle/strut join. Those sets that John gets with metal cores and resin outer portions are ideal. But that is a very niche selection right now, like Moskit metal exhausts.