F-16

1/32 Polish F-16D Block 52+, Part II

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This Kit is Cursed

You know those kits where nothing seems to go right? Not because it’s a bad kit, not because it’s fighting you in any specific way, just…because.

That’s where I’m at with this F-16. There’s nothing wrong with the plastic per se. Some of the kit’s engineering is questionable, but there’s nothing (so far) that’s insurmountable. Rather, the problems have been of a random variety…PE gone bad, paint misbehaving, the regulators on top of the seat-mounted O2 bottles snapping off.

I could box this kit and move on. I’ve thought about it. But I’ve put too much into this kit to back out now. So on we go.

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