F4F-4 Wildcat

Kelly Wellington
This looks pretty straightforward. That's not what I call a high level of complexity.

Kelly Wellington
Heh...And yet....

I'm not sure that I did the main landing gear correctly. The instructions were not particularly helpful. The landing gear consists of seven pieces, four of which are halves of the wheels (an unnecessary multiplication of pieces to be glued) and the remaining being a spindly u-shaped bar with the wheel hub attachments and rings where the other two pieces, which glue together to create what I assume is to represent the spring. I'm not sure that I put the two pieces of the spring work together correctly. I'm not sure that I attached the resultant 'springwork' to the bar work correctly. And, I'm not sure that I placed the assembled gear (minus wheels) in to the fuselage frontwards or backwards. The 'cover' for the landing gear when it is retracted during flight does not look right to me...it looks like a scoop that would be torn up and off in a particularly bouncy landing.