Another awesome entry, my friend @grimreaper! Looking forward to it!

My dad already built several Trunpeter/HB kits, they have their accuracy and shape faults but in the end look like the thing.
Gonna do only minor corrections.

Bought Aires/Quickboost exhausts, chin radiator and seats with molded on belts.
not much visible difference between aftermarket and kit radiator

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Those extras look great, Reinhard @grimreaper

Great progress, my friend @grimreaper! Not sure which seat is closer to reality, possibly the Quickboost.

Another cool plane, Reinhard (@grimreaper). I have found that kit seats are often slightly oversized. Looking forward to the rest of this one.

A wise decision to use the kit intake, my friend @grimreaper!
Great progress!

some force is needed to snap the wing into positon when joining with the fuselage
kit provides no landing light, only the cover, have to do some improvising

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