The quality and detailing of the kit is high quality as you would expect from a modern tooling. I think the cost is a bit high for a 1/72 kit with no resin options but these days I guess this is what one expects. The Instruction manual is of high quality with excellent color paint guides. The decals are great. The reason I give it a 4 out of 5 is for several reasons. One I mentioned which is overall value/cost factor. The 2nd is overall fit was not as good as expected in some areas. One area was the whole wing to fuselage assembly process with intakes involved. Somewhat over engineered making it more complicated then it needed to be leading to possible error and more fit issues. Definitely study this area and check, double check before gluing. I was left with some gaping in the wing roots and to minimize this I had to really squeeze the fuselage tightly around the intakes and press the wing assembly with lots of force using a combination of vises and braces. Even after that there were still gaps but minimized to a point that a fix was fairly easy. I used very thin strips of plastic to sort of shim into the gap filling the gap and fitting into the nice wing to fuse blend at the root minimizing need for putty and lots of sanding saving skin details. Another thing I have found with MENG products is the plastic tree to part attachment points are always in the worst place. Sometimes they are attached at a mating surface with irregular surface making it hard to snip and smooth without destroying some fine contour needed for a part to fit. This may have actually contributed to my fit issues because lots of sanding points due to parts attachment stubs on these crucial surfaces. Overall this builds into the best 1/72 F-106A on the market and detail rivals the larger 1/48 brothers of same aircraft but this comes at a cost of being expensive and overall complicated making this a more challenging build not recommended to inexperienced modelers. Also I usually build at 1/48 scale so I had a bit of adjustment to the smaller parts and details, especially the weapons bays, and landing gear details and painting.Read full review
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Easily the best kit available. I especially like the closed weapon bay option. Be careful with fuselage halves due a weak spot behind the cockpit. The parts layout makes it obvious and F-106B is in the future
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Model has high quality molding and details plus photo etch part ( ladder ).
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Best kit of this aircraft in any scale. Well engineered and exquisitely moulded. Amazing detail for a smaller scale model. HIGHLY recommended!
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Great model for my collection! 👌👍
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It’s a nice detail !
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Kit of the year !!!!!
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very precise kit
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Awesome
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