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More or less experienced scale model kit builders are often so demanding and rather harsh and critical against brands like Hobby Boss, Smêr and Hobby Craft for their lack of accuracy and simplicity. However, I am not one of those: while pieces fit together fine, decals are not too fragile and stick well, and the model is evident enough so you do not need to explain what machine it represents, I am okay with it.

Simplicity can easily be dealt with by adding new stuff to improve it, as I have done with this one. The kit as such consists of just three main parts: wings-underside fuselage-tail horizontal stabilizers + upper fuselage with tail vertical stabilizer & rudder + engine. I personally find Hobby Boss kits just excellent for people with little to no experience with this hobby, but also for more experienced people who may with to make use of their skills to hand-craft and add new pieces.

The only problem is that during this build of this kit I made the silly mistake of picking it up while the matt varnish was not totally dry yet, resulting in braking the decal on the cross to the right hand side of the tail. I tried to fix it as well as I could to save it, instead of replacing it with a new decal, because I prefer to have full sets of spare decals, and not incomplete ones.

Decals and paint options are not original to the kit- I painted it to represent a random aircraft in that Italian livery of which to date I had no kit.

Video on the build process, featuring a start-up animation at the very end: youtu.be/SjMzXdYzJcI .

Description
More or less experienced scale model kit builders are often so demanding and rather harsh and critical against brands like Hobby Boss, Smêr and Hobby Craft for their lack of accuracy and simplicity. However, I am not one of those: while pieces fit together fine, decals are not too fragile and stick well, and the model is evident enough so you do not need to explain what machine it represents, I am okay with it.

Simplicity can easily be dealt with by adding new stuff to improve it, as I have done with this one. The kit as such consists of just three main parts: wings-underside fuselage-tail horizontal stabilizers + upper fuselage with tail vertical stabilizer & rudder + engine. I personally find Hobby Boss kits just excellent for people with little to no experience with this hobby, but also for more experienced people who may with to make use of their skills to hand-craft and add new pieces.

The only problem is that during this build of this kit I made the silly mistake of picking it up while the matt varnish was not totally dry yet, resulting in braking the decal on the cross to the right hand side of the tail. I tried to fix it as well as I could to save it, instead of replacing it with a new decal, because I prefer to have full sets of spare decals, and not incomplete ones.

Decals and paint options are not original to the kit- I painted it to represent a random aircraft in that Italian livery of which to date I had no kit.

Video on the build process, featuring a start-up animation at the very end: youtu.be/SjMzXdYzJcI .