Everything was going fine with build until that ever present show stopper. The intake trunks on this kit are well in engineered on the inside and they way the pieces go together. However, they don't fit into the fuselage well, especially up front where it matters. Anyone else that is building this have the same problem? I had to pull out the intakes a couple of times and finally decided not to put the pieces of the intake together. I then put them in individually. This seems to work well but as noted, would like to hear other ideas as I am sure there will be more Raptors that I build.
So, what is done...
Cockpit is done ( I leave my seats out until all the painting is done)
flaps together
Vertical stabs on
Bunch of little stuff
Basically I am waiting for this intake issue to be resolved and we can then put the halves together. From that, the big stuff is pretty much done. I think it is going to take some putty and effort though to get those intakes correct.
