A wonderful choice, my friend @luftwaffe-birdman!
Looking forward to it!

A very good choice! Revell also released this Dragon kit. Looking forward to your build.

Started doing a little work on this this weekend. The fit of the fuselage components is excellent. I glued the vertical stabilizer to the horizontal and in the pictures it is just resting in the fuselage. The fuselage itself isn't even glued together. The side rockets I glued together, and did some preliminary cleanup on two and left two alone. You can see that the fit is good and it doesn't take much to ready.

I dipped the canopy in future, and it came out looking pretty nice but both pieces had molding flaws, but will barely noticeable once painted.

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Nice start - strapped in!

I have been making some progress on the Natter itself. While not Tamiya...the fit is excellent, and so far no filler required at all. When I was at a local shop I bought some Mr.Cement SPB, which is a thin set liquid cement with a black dye/resin added. This glue works really nice, and shows you where it is applied. You can also see your seams after sanding and see if you missed any areas. I really like the way it works, and will definitely make sure I have some around to use always.

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I've hardly ever seen anyone do one of these, though I know a lot of people who have it in their stash. Planes of Fame has a 1:1 replica of this thing on display - it is small!

G'day Walt (@luftwaffe-birdman),
I built but not quite finished this kit years ago (same boxing).
It has sat in the box, until I got it out late briefly last year, because I intended to construct a diorama with the aircraft mounted on the supplied (and built) launch tower.
Several years ago I picked up a second boxing (pic attached), intending this one to be a companion piece.
I must get that diorama going again.

The glue is interesting too. I guess you can see that it gets into the joins.
Be careful with the launch tower because the hand/foot holds are easy to knock off.
Great progress so far - I'm looking forward to see the finished kit.

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