I bought this kit about 5 years ago from eBay at a decent price. This kit was started by the previous owner and from looking at the photos of the kit, it looked okay for me to deal with. To be honest that turned out to be my mistake but not a terrible one.
I started this build last week. So far the build is moving along slowly. I had to remove the clear parts that the previous owner glued on and he or she used tube glue so there was a lot of residual glue that needed to be removed. None of the clear parts were flush to the outside of the fuselage plus glue was on part of the clear parts too. I had to then clean the contact surfaces to where the clear parts will get glued onto by doing some light filing and sanding.
I forgot to mention that the some of the crew and cockpit was already glued together and that also needed time to take apart and clean them to make them fit right since they were not glued correctly into place.
This kit came with two sets of clear parts. One was complete while the other was started by the previous owner. Last night I glued on the cockpit, bombardier and a few of the smaller side windows on the fuselage. Later I will work on the rear gunner section. The side gunners and rear position behind the upper turret will get glued on after all of the painting, decals and final clear coats are applied. The installation of the upper and lower turrets will be done at the end of this build.
Once I get the fuselage halves glued together, I am hoping the build will move at a quicker pace. The fit does not look too bad for the fuselage, the wing to body fit might need some work on the gaps. I will see how this will look after they are glued together. Right now I am almost done with the cockpit.
3 attached images. Click to enlarge.