Impressive stuff. It really is a nice looking kit.
But I can't help feeling slightly puzzled by the way Eduard sometimes go about things; in the first place, the kit is excellent and extremely well detailed, so why (apart from extra revenue) release 'up date' parts, which could have been incorporated as part of the main kit parts which, in themselves, are more than adequate anyway.Secondly, in 1/48th scale, and even in 1/32nd scale, all that extra detail (over and above what is provided in the basic kit) will be difficult to see on the finished model, the cockpit opening being so small and narrow, as most of us know.
That said, it looks like this kit, even in it's basic form from the box, has taken the laurels as best MkIX in 1/48th scale, although it is, of course, more than twice the price of the previous title holder from ICM.
I think I'll have to try really hard to buy only one .....