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Staff Sergeant
Nice Oscar Saburo.
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You are welcome SE.
If I've understood, you bought for 10$,yes? But the cost of a model doesn't determinate its quality.The Academy models are rather good.All parts of them are moulded clean without overflows,the stamp traces are visible on inner surfaces only or aren't visible at all.All engraved panel lines are sharp ,thin, and mostly at the places where thye should be.Rivets are also there where they should be visible.Assembling of Academy kits is easy and a putty and sanding are needed at the standard places ( top and bottom of the fuselage,leading edges of wings and transition between the wings and the fuselage).Decals have been the weak point of the Academy kits but these can be replaced easly by other decal sets.The main problem of Academy kits geometry and measurements.Of course it doesn't mean that all models of the firm have the same problems.If you compare the kits to other model makers ones it appeares they are really enough to make a nice model.Additionally, I can tell you that also the Hasegawa models aren't free of mistakes.Some month ago I bought 1:48 Spitfire Mk.IX/IXc kit.It is very nice model but its demisions are incorrect,the ICM model of Spit is much better with its shape.So don't give your modelling up,please.I've just started assembling P 51B/C of Mastercraft ( an old INTECH kit).The cost of it about 5$.I've met there the same problems like with the Academy Mustangs.
regards,