The quality and design of the kit is excellent and at £10 is excellent value for money, you get options for two a/c one as seen in France 1915 and the other 1916 operating out of Edinburgh.
For me it is a simple choice as to which vertiginous to build, it had to be the Scottish black and white check board version
You will see from the images that I have unconventionally not painted the cockpit before assembling the body, the reason is I have heard lots of comments about people having fit issues with some of Airfix's new kits, I personally think these issues are caused by Airfix designing their kits with extremely fine tolerances and if you add paint before assembly that's when you have the fit issues. So the simple salusion is build first then paint.
As I suspected the part fit is excellent requiring no filler and only a swipe of the sanding stick to clean up the joins.
The decal sheet supplied is exceptional I thought at first it would be a nightmare but the decals are strong enough to move around but thin enough to handle the curved surfaces and small molded detail.
To easy the task of adding all the decals I first sprayed the main parts gloss white as the checkered decals are black and clear, I'm glad I used gloss white as it made the positioning of the decals a lot easier.
, but your tip about the gloss white base is a keeper just in case I ever do.
