Hey, bigbird;
Hope you'll get your belly pan afterall. But if not, like you said, it could be replicated easily with a piece of foam and fiberglass. If I buy another CMP kit I buy from AKModels. Alex the owner seems to be a straight guy to deal with. I asked him about the cheaper version of the Hellcat and
he recommended not to buy it because of quality issues. My "real" CMP-Hellcat is almost flawless. The only issue I found was they painted the flaps on the wrong side. No big deal since I am going to repaint my entire plane, anyway.