Good god, people! You will not believe the hellishness of this kit! It's the Revell 1/48 F-22. It's a re-box of the Italeri kit that came out a little bit ago, so I expected it to be decent. Well, it isn't. I have never used so much putty in my life. I'm doing the whole thing with all the doors and crap open, and it's a good thing because the fit of this kit is terrible. It supposedly has options to build it gear up and weapons bay doors closed, but good luck with that because just getting the fuselage to fit together right has been a nightmare. Tails, fuselage, flaps, intake, NOTHING fits right.
I read a few reviews of this thing (after I bought it, lucky me.) and this seems to be the norm. I just hope after all the sanding and putty I can make it look decent. It's a damn shame. There are very few options for this awesome airframe. Italeri brought out two kits, a 1/72 and a 1/48 then Revell re-boxed both of them. From what I gather there are absolutely no differences between the revell and the italeri.
Hey Academy! Build me an F/A-22, F/A-18 style, eh?