72 Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II Academy
Another return to the crazy bendy fuselage kit!

Started this one several years ago (guessing at 2010). Could have been earlier. The kit suffers from serious fit issues with the two fuselage halves. Gave up on it. Bought the Hasegawa version only to find they are the same molds! Had another go at it in 2019 which ended with some poor spray painting. Picked it up again in December 2022 and stripped back the bad paint job and started again. Coated it in Klear and started to add decals from an A-10 Microscale set I purchased for the kit way back when. These decals were too fragile and just broke up in water. Anyway that was last Christmas. It's now Christmas 2023 and we go again. Microscale Liquid Decal Film bought and painted over the whole sheet. I'm now ready to give them another (careful) try.