I've been working on trumpeter's 48th scale RA-5C Vigilanti. The fit sucks and the decals seem to break just by looking hard at them. I am really disappointed. While I got the kit on sale, it wasn't cheap. I sooo wanted to make a showpiece of this aircraft too. I think it is the best looking jet ever in service. So did I just get a warped bird or are all the kits like this?

It's not really that good of a kit, in other repects as well.

I've only test fit mine, but of the 3 modelers I know who've built the the kit, they all felt along the same lines as you on the Trumpy Vig; some even worse.

Wings and fuselage are warped on my kits BTW.

Mike V

Glad it ain't just me. Lots of Mr Surfacer went into this one, and piecing together the breaks in the decals wasn't fun, but at a normal distance, it looks nice. I did have to use a black sharpie to color in some of the decal breaks