Speaking of the burner cans - check this out. Why would the open cans have surface detail and the closed one not? They are side by side on the same sprue! How could that not get noticed?
And the gaps just keep on coming. This picture doesn't show it so well but I has to add about a 1/4 inch wedge of plastic between the kit combing and the control panel. Otherwise the control panel would have been too far forward leaving a noticeable gap inside the cockpit even with the canopy closed up.
The control panel itself was pretty plain so I sanded off what little detail there was and added detail with plastic bits and finished off with acrylic paint. I think it is convincing enough for a closed canopy.
Here is yet another gap. When I was test fitting the canopy not only did the rear canopu come up a bit short it was also too high. I'll have to figure out how to fill that in.
Here I've filled in some of the gaps at the wing roots with plastic strip. I didn't find these gaps so bad - I've seen worse on other kits.
Another surprise was the angle of the tail fins. They look more like an F-15 or Mig 29! I'll have to fiddle with this to get the right (or at least more correct) angle. Note also the tips of the fins are rounded - they'll have to be flattened to be more like a CF-188's.
GB
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