The fourth member of the Ten Buck Club, this is a BIG airplane. Reasonable exterior detail, but fairly basic over all. So far no issues, but gluing up the wings will be tricky, as they're very flexible, and until "panelized", all over the place. Wing mechanism appears funky at first, but when entirely assembled should actually function.

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Although I have not found a photo on the web of the particular aircraft that i have markings for, it appears to be of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing, based at Mountain Home AFB, It'll be gray over gray low viz.

Moving right along-slowly, as I contracted the flu for the first time in over a decade, I ran into a few issues concerning fit, the major issue being between the cockpit module and the rest of the airframe. As you can see, it really Tee'd me off. A bit of plastic card shimmed the tee to the correct length and resulted in a joint that was close enough to deal with.

After a little filling, I pre-shaded the whole thing-getting closer-but having a hard time imagining the finished product as this kit is a bunch of parts flying in loose formation, particularly the wings and the slop made necessary by the swing mechanism. We'll see...

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Did you really bin it ?
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Sorry to hear that, its a hard call to say "enough is enough" - you must have been pretty p'od to send it into the circular file at that stage of the build.

Know what you mean Bryan - although I ruined a good quality kit at the painting stage, when I could see no way of saving the build, which up till that point had been good - it went into the trash 🙁