Well slowly making progress and finding more pitfalls in kit and instructions.
Parts J1 and J2 form the outer intake skin. In the photo there are little triangular plastic bits that are not mentioned in the instructions, in fact the instructions do not explicitly show the modeler what they are for. You will only need them if your MLU F-16 carries the SNIPER and ECM pods on these intake stations. So had to remove them for my build.
Test fitted the main gear bay and intake trunking in to find another issue, it would not mate flush with lower fuselage thus leaving a gap on aft gear bulkhead and fuselage. So had to open up the square locator holes so the square pins would fit. Then clamped each side of intake to fuselage and glued. Once that was done the bulkhead gap vanished.
Another problem is the amount of flash I keep finding. Just enough to make things not fit right. Then there is part C5 which is 1mm long and attaches to nose gear. Why did Kinetic make a part so small it almost looks like excess plastic on the sprue tree? Don't know but managed to lose it.
So that's where I am at. Stay tuned.
3 attached images. Click to enlarge.
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1. Intake station attachment point.
2. Left side intake attachment point.
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