Question about the Classic Airframes new F-5 kit

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I was just over at the Hyperscale site reading a couple of reviews about Classic Airframes’ new line of F-5 kits.

They are beautiful kits, but as I was looking at the pictures of the finished models, something stuck out to me about the depiction of the airbrake.

The kit depicts it as a single rectangular piece the width of the fuselage. Any F-5 I’ve ever seen has its airbrakes in the same position, but they are two seperate square panels side by side across the fuselage width.

The kits represent A and B versions and as Canada used the A and B I got to see more than a few examples of the type and they all had two piece airbrakes.

Is this some sort of earlier airbrake configuation represented by the kit that I don’t know about or might it be an actual error on the manufacturers part?

Just something I noticed, the kit looks really nice.

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Upnorth,
Here are some pics.





While they look like one piece in the shots. The last pic shows a definite line that could be a separation line. I know that the Canadair version had some slight differences from a regular F-5a but can’t find a better pic.
Whups, spoke too soon. check this one out.

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Thanks for the pics, Phil.

I noticed in the picture of the Turkish Stars A/C that there is a thin separation line in the middle that you can see light through. Thats how I’ve always seen F-5 airbrakes.

Perhaps its just one of those things that comes down to each aircraft individually.