
So far while looking through the kit it looks decent. I primed everything on the sprues after getting rid of some injector pin marks on the inside of the fuselage halves. Seems the only place I really have to deal with those, which is good.
Next order of business was to see about the landing gear. You don't get a gear up option, so I had to modify some stuff. Here's what I had to work with, now the main gear legs attached to the tire have a hinge pretty much right in the middle.

I split it at the hinge with a hobby knife.

I was hoping to use all the parts, and just have them folded up in the wheel well like they would be on the real thing. But there isn't enough room, and rather than spend a bunch of time mucking with it, and trying to make things fit, I just opted to discard the upper piece that I cut off. You won't see it anyway. I had to trim the main leg a little bit to get it to fit in the well. It should fold up in there nicely, and you don't really see any of the gear sticking out, just the wheel. But the tire was hitting inside the well.

So I broke out the file, and got rid of some of the material so the tire had room to fit up in there, and everything sits flush.


So I think this will work for what I'm trying to do. If I really wanted to spend the time I could cut out the wheel well from inside, and scratch make a new one, so all the parts would fit in there the way they should, but you won't see any of it once it's finished anyway. I don't see the point in taking the time on it. Maybe if I was going for a super accurate version, but I would do that in 1/48 where more detail can be put in.