First photo shows the vacuform parts still attached to the styrene sheet backing. Note the detailed molding of the parts are somewhat crude in particular the wheel wells on the fuselage. This will take some extra "elbow" grease to remove some of that detail and to do some "tweaking" to make improvements on the parts. To many modelers vacuform kits are not for the faint of heart and are considered to be a "scourge" to plastic modeling. My rule of thumb about vacuform kits is that they are plastic modeling's answer to balsa wood modeling. Vacuform is very forgiving if you make mistake. It really does help you to improve your modeling skills and develop techniques when it comes to detailing your model.
Second photo shows the fuselage halves removed and sanded from the sheet backing. Note the molded wheel wells were removed (drilled out) and refashioned with scrap styrene and putty.
Third photo shows the Upper halves and Lower halves of the wings removed and sanded from the backing. Each wing half was sanded to shape. Sanding the trailing edge as thin as possible then cementing the upper and lower halves. Ailerons have been removed from top wing and are awaiting further sanding and shaping.
More later,
Buz
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