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by pvanroy » Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:30 pm
Not quite. The wing leading edge and LERX are indeed a bit on the thick side, but that's not the main issue. When you look at a frontal view of an AV-8B, you'll see that the wing leading edge has greater anhedral along its inner half, between the fuselage and the small wing fence. Also, in side view, the LERX has a very subtle curvature. Anyway, as said, nothing that can't be corrected, especially if it's released as a kit - but on the other hand, it would be nice to get the right shapes OOB. In the end, itcomes down to the fact that these models are neither fish nor fowl: they're too accurate and detailed to be considered toys, but they lack the level of detail, accuracy and refinement that a dedicated scale modeler generally expects, in part to keep production costs down, but also in large measure to incorporate some toyish features (e.g. retractable LG) that are valued by part of the market for these large scale vehicles. Still, as long as these models are dimensionally correct, they form a good basis for a determined modeler to produce a real show stopper - there are some very impresive examples of that on the Internet.