1/48 F-35B VMFA-211 Wake Island Avengers

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So the Italeri is around the same price as the Meng "35A"!
Sprues look decent............ trudging along with this "thing"
until it gets the best of me and I binnit!!!!
Finished painting the wheel wells white, SMS paint covers nicely.
This is what it takes to CLAMP it together for the glue.
Arrow points to a break in the part, on the spru it was broken.
I can start buttoning up the body of this thing.
I sent off artwork to be printed, but cannot get a reply from them.
Phoned, said they would look into the receiving of same, now nuttin!
 
That was quick you guys...........................
Next problem to solve..................... fuselage seams!!!!! WT@#%*
You can see in the first 3....... this is supposed to be a very sharp edge, eh?
So what I have done, no photo yet. When I glue this bad boy together!
In the last, I use a soft art pencil, 4B grade. Like they do in body shops (smash repair).
I run the pencil all over the mating edges. The scrape with an eXacto
across taking a bit of the graphite from the Inside edge
creeping gradually to the outside edge taking plastic off tapering from the back.
This will thin without damaging the edge that mates.
Pictures when attached! The edge turned out okay, for this tub of a kit.
Kitty Hawk kits sure improved.
 
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