Well the cockpit assembly falls into the "sorta fits" category, but nothing terrible. I got it in, but there is a bit of a little gap on the belly. I expected this to mean I would need to bisect the separate ventral panel and build it out with styrene to make it that sixteenth wider on one end. But strangely, it fit perfectly. The gap is accounted for maybe?
Anyway owing to the tight fit around the cockpit I broke with convention and used a spring clamp. Unfortunately this model is not quite so rugged and the clamp fractured the fuselage on either side of the nose.
One piece came free and left it looking like it took a 30mm strike.
Cue green stuff.
Starting to look like a Venom.
Anyway it's going along now. There are ejector marks that must be gouged away. There are a few instances of inconsequential flash and two major ones. Essentially monster flash fills in part of the landing gear holes on the underside of either wing, they need to be carved and sanded out.
The two fuselage halves were a solid 32nd apart in length, but the panel lines agree enough that I could just sand away the difference.
The jetpipe mold wasn't set quite correctly on this one, the result is the pipe is hair-thin on one side and quite thick on the other. Considerably cautious sanding brought the edge to as close of a uniformly sharpness as I was willing to risk.
Having said all this, it's a shorter run kit. It's what was at least, a less common subject. And it's still a very good kit. Just a bit like cheez whiz, it has
personality. 
