I got mine last night, worked on it some before a headache sent me to bed, lazy start back up again today, really I have only just finished the front end.

But things I have noticed, like Tom the instructions are not that clear, with the front end you wish they had said to do some things before building some sections, like threading in some parts, the plastics in general are 'very' hard, threading in some bits takes some effort, makes me wish I had some taps to pre cut some threads.

One tip from me, thread your sway bar link caps into the lower front arms before putting your arms on the car, they are hard to get in perfectly straight and true, harder when the arms are in the car like the instruction show you to do first.
I actually had to wind one out a couple of times cause it does not like to go in true, no chance of even tapping that one, which is a shame, be nice to see that pre threaded.

My observations on the front end in general, it's seriously small in clearances, everything comes within mm of each other, compact and complicated in design, I'm not about to say that is bad, just it is what it is, very intricate complex in comparison to anything else I have seen.

Oh yeah, and my lower bumper lip thing has/had a reverse bow in it, edges curve downwards, and molding marks on lower arms required filing to not foul and bind the suspension.

But I'm still finding it a beautiful car in general, everything about the design screams both complex yet almost overly thought out design, to copy this from another makers point of view would be amusingly hard, will be interesting to see what happens there.

Also I got an email back from Mugen today, that error in the setup sheet final drive ratio I noticed a few pages back, apparently they are aware of it and are soon to fix it, which is good cause I thought I was imagining it when I saw the mistake/misprint...