Yeah, I agree Wayne.Before I bought it, just after it was released, I'd read reviews about uneven panel lines, heavy rivets etc, none of which were an issue. Those areas of rivets were easily corrected, if neccessary, and I couldn't find any panel-line problems. But, no one had reviewed the kit after /during building it, hence my magazine article at the time (which skipped part publication due to plan changes in publication schedules.).
The kit parts were (are) beautiful, the finesse and overall quality fantastic (eg 10 parts to the gunsight alone, if I remember) gimmicks such as 'working' oleos aside, but repeated test fitting soon showed a horendous multitude of errors, plus a couple of glaring ommissions.
In all my (then) 44 -45 years of modelling, I can truly say I have never had such a b*tch of a kit to build !
It does, eventually, turn out quite nice, as you probably saw from the couple of shots I posted in my '30 Years' thread, but it's a big disappointment, and certainly not for the novice, or even 'average' modeller.
Sorry to hi-jack your thread Greedy! I'm sure you'll overcome, and do a good job!
Terry.