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Hello, Thought I would start a separate topic for this as not to take over the other post about Trumpeter F-14 issues. When I bought this kit I went straight for the intakes to see if there was a fix for them rather than buying resin replacements. The biggest issue bugging me with the intakes is that the lower intake "floor" is not parallel with the top of the intake lip resulting in a twisted rectangle shape when viewed from straight ahead. Look at this first pic you can se that the lip and floor are not at the same angle. image by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr} Now here is a shot of the side I have corrected, note the upper and lower intake lips are now parallel...well very close anyway, this whole thing is held together with tape so you'll need to keep that in mind! image by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr} A head on shot of the intake fix... image by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr} Ok so how did I straighten it out, well here goes. After staring at the problem and thinking about it during work commutes I decided to approach it this way. Starting from the tape line I removed heavy 1/16" of plastic from the outboard side of the intake doing this slowly as not to remove too much material. This will allow you to glue the now shortened side to the intake ceiling and get those upper and lower edges parallel. image by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr} and closer.. image by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr} Now after all of this and your still with me there is one last step...you will need to add a sliver of plastic to the face edge of the shortened side of the intake to make it the same angle as the one that is not shortened. If not your sanded intake side will fall short of the other one once glued up. I recommend doing one side at a time and making templates of the amount of plastic removed AND the sliver of plastic needed to add to the angle side of the part. I have not done that step yet in the pics...hope my description is clear. So there you go at least you can true up the intake faces using this method. There is still much work to be done to finesse them into shape and this only fixes the intake shape at the front, I haven't even dove into the internal details, so keep this in mind. Hope this is helpful, i'm not an expert on the F-14, just trying to correct a visible shape issue. Ryan