Goes together really well, if you have a bit of modelling experience it's easy to make it look really good doing rather simple things like touch up painting etc. You'll need plastic cement and super glue if you want to transform it more than once, though, but it's doable.
Those stickers, though. Although the stickers are the lesser of two evils. I think that if you have an airbrush setup (I don't), you should definitely mask and spray the detailing on.
Much better kit than the VF-25, and I didn't really have any problem with floppiness despite transforming more than a couple of times. (Although, I did break parts that needed to be glued back.)
Spent 3-4 nights working on the kit, soooooo about 10 hours? But I did a lot of unnecessary busywork that I wouldn't have had to do if I was more organised. I think assembly by itself just took around 5.