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Here is my completed airfix 1/48th EE lightning, built using eduard etch and quickboost seat. Paint is humbril 11 spray and revell acrylic for the blue The kit is excellent, one of my favourites that I have built, I had no alignment issues and its only let down by the front wheel well which is oval and the fuselague gap is square, a bit of plastic stretched spruce filled the gap. Decals are excellent to use The quickboost seat is too big and needed a lot of trimming to fit the eduard etch is very good It finished product isnt the best to say the least , I had a bit of a disaster during the spraying, as it is a big kit and uniform in colour I used halfords paint, but instead of my usual nissen silver I decided to try chrome - which wouldnt dry, so after 3 days I decided a hairdrier would speed things up , it didnt , all I did was slightly melt the rear tail area so this is slightly distorted. I also knocked off the tail planes and missiles when handling so the joins arnt great there. So while Im slightly dissapointed I still think it looks ok in the display cabinet and Ill definatly do another