AFV Club F-16AM

Getting a start on this. The kit cockpit parts aren't terrible. May have to go back and redo the belts, never been a fan of molded-on ones. 

Not terrible, except for the infiltating cat hair and cotton swab bits.
 

Needs a little more work on the "glass" and to add the control stick details. 

 

Like I said, decent seat except for the belts. Shame all the detail and shading on the lower part of the seat will be hidden once installed. 

After research, there appears to be no set color scheme for the ACES II seat so I went with what I thought looked plausible. 

 

The kit betrays its Academy origins. Weird parts breakdown, very few if any locating aids and over ambitious engineering that nevertheless manages to fit OK but will still require a fair amount of work.  

Like a lot of their other models, the Academy parts fit but the molding isn't up to Tamiya, so the soft edges and not-quite-90-degree angles mean that there's quite a bit of slop. 

Minimal filler should be needed.