The kit is well-detailed, with an excellent cockpit. There are detailed side consoles and some sidewall detail, a nice control stick, gunsight, and some raised dials on the instrument panel (in addition to the decal). The main gear bays are packed with detail, but the inside of the gear doors and the nose bay are, sadly, completely blank. The nose bay is small, so the lack of detail will not be seen. The surface detail is provided as fine recessed panel lines, which look great.

Since this plane has a nosewheel, you will need to either add weight to the front to keep it sitting on all three wheels, or stand it on the extended arrester hook. There isn't enough room in the nose for the weight, so I glued BBs behind the cockpit tub with superglue.

Fit is generally excellent, except around the nose where the two fuselage areas meet (I needed some putty here) and where the tail section meets the fuselage, where I was left with a large step, which was not easily removed. The tail is a separate piece to account for the smaller tail of the FGA.6 version, also kitted by HobbyBoss in British and Indian markings, so expect to do some serious sanding and puttying around this area to correct this seam.

The kit includes eight 60-pound rockets and two drop tanks for ordinance, although the rockets are engineered strangely, and will take some work to look good. I left them off my finished kit. No color information is included for these rockets; they are probably a dark grey, as shown on the box art.

The decals are high-quality, printed in register, and settle down nicely into surface details with use of the micro-sol and -set system. The decals are very glossy, however, so for a more realistic look, it's best to seal them with a gloss coat, then give the entire plane a dullcote.