I would have liked to have worked on the panel lines a bit more.
The fragility of the landing gear made that too difficult for me and my
shaky hands. Apparently the maker really wanted a scale size landing gear
and that resulted in very weak struts, made worse by the flexibility of
the limited run soft plastic. They will hold the finished model up but
won't tolerate any kind of side loads. The design of the gear is
very complex. Like the Grumman Bearcat there is a sort of trapese
mechanism such that the top of the strut is moved outboard as it
retracts. The instructions have a few gotchas, they say to
install the main
gear struts with the axles outboard, but pictures and logic say
otherwise. They also show you to put the lower wing insignia on the
left wing, but we all know better than that (but I still checked
photos!).
