I built this model in the fall of 2015. I do not recall having any fit problems and the photos do not show hardly any flashing on any part. Airfix also give a paint choice drawing, so I choose the "All Black" color.

The Hornet F-1 model that I wrote about in another post was posted some time ago and was painted up as a racing model to match my real photo of it at the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio around 1947-1950.

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What a fantastic model, Rodney @f2g1d!

Your word "holdfasts" lost me, so I went to the photos to see what you were talking about.
I went to a "aluminum" computer "scrapyard" when I was living in San Jose, CA; (1977-2004) I was looking for and found some thin perforated sheets of aluminum with holes about 2mm in diameter for my Korean tarmac, (runway) to put my new 1/32 F86 Sabre Jet diorama on. This place had everything you could think of, when it came to aluminum, so I bought several kinds of rod and bar/block size items. I was at the right place at the right time!

I left San Jose, California in 2004 and came back to live in Southern California in 2016. Maybe the scrapyard is still there ! RJW!