The kit is molded in basic gray. The scribing is raised, but somehow fits the rugged appearance of the aircraft. The lines around the control surfaces are engraved. I was a little unhappy at the extreme size of the rivets on the tail surfaces, but a quick (and light) sanding reduced them to a more manageable size.

The biggest problem with the kit relates to Monogram's molding in specific details, whether I wanted them or not. As case in point, the wheel well doors are molded as portions of the wheel well sides. To build the aircraft in flight requires surgery in order to free the doors and close them. Also, the speed brake does not fit very nice into place in the closed position. I accepted all these things being open on the finished model and had no trouble with them after that.

Monogram is one of the better companies for giving well detailed stores for under the wings. The kit has beautiful weapons pylons and anti-sway braces that just beg to have things hung under them. Provided in the kit are the customary four wing fuel tanks that were nearly always present on U.S. aircraft, two 500lb low drag bombs (with the fuse arming wire molded on them), two napalm tanks, and two simply gorgeous 7.62mm minigun pods. No kits by any maker to date include such wonderful renditions of this gun pod. The manner in which the weapons pylons are molded shows Monogram's acknowledgement to alternate weapons available by other manufactures. The kit does not simply mold the weapons already attached to the pylons like so many other Monogram kits have done. I chose to use rocket pods available from the Hasegawa weapons sets and had no problem attaching them on the pylons.

I built the kit mostly out-of-the-box. The fit of most of the kit, including a tricky wing joint, was flawless. The only area of concern was the wing-to-fuselage seam under the aircraft between the engine exhausts. Considering the location of the seam (being impossible to see without picking the model up), I was not overly worried. The only modifications I made to the basic kit were as follows:

I used Testor's Model Master enamel paints to paint the entire model. The aircraft is from the 19^th TASS / 51^st Composite Wing based at Osan AB in Korea. This is the only place I have noted where A-37's were camouflaged in overall Gunship Gray (F.S.36118). I pieced together the markings and aircraft data from spare decals. SuperScale released decals for an aircraft of this unit just two days after I finished building the model. I found that to be poor timing on their part.

I needed gray numbers for the wing tanks. Lacking any at the time, I decided to try an experiment. I applied the wingtip fuel tank numbers in white decals. Then I misted some Gunship Gray over them to "gray them out". It worked well and provided about the right color shade for the numbers without having to go out and find gray numbers.