Well, I was right about the RS Magister – It is a nice kit. As there is so little to do in making it – though it is by no means a Hobby Boss production – the assembly is not boring. Of course there is the PE to deal with but even that is simple. I have eschewed the use of PE scissors for this – they are far too crude – and just use the normal Tamiya decal scissors to get the small parts off. If you know where to snip nothing gets distorted.
The cockpit area has something that all kits might copy; recessed sections that receive separately-moulded panels with detail on them. They are nice, thin, and flexible but still part of the standard injection tree – they’re are easy to apply.
The PE rudder pedals are ridiculously detailed and spindly but actually applied very well.
And the bulkheads are so close to fitting that there will be only the very smallest amount of fettling to get a closure of the fuselage. This is always a relief with Czech models and their no-locating-pin design.
The tailplanes will be awkward, but you cannot have everything.
The Little World 
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