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This kit is requiring quite a lot of work, just cleaning up all the flash / bad molding on the parts takes forever, and there's so much poor molding that has to be puttied and sanded.
Something I noticed that really sticks out on a lot of the surfaces are these very subtle scratches that look like they are from the shitty tooling, like they cut the steel but didn't bother to polish / clean up the cut marks properly. Had to sand a lot of that down, especially on the engines which meant I had to re-scribe some details there too. I noticed the same thing on the Galactica kit as well. I also scribed that missing panel line on the fuselage.
I'm doing quite a bit of scratch building to make it look more like a model and less like a toy, for example replacing the far too thick landing gear bay plastic covers with a piece of thin styrene. I'm probably going to end up scratch building a better looking pilot seat as well using some greenstuff and styrene, since the one that comes with the kit is so basic and barren.
I am also thinking about altering the landing gear heavily to give it more detail. I also have yet to drill out the air intakes on the wings which Moebius didn't bother to include on the kit.
