I'm not a slow builder, I swear! Time just haven't been on my side lately!:lol Anyway, yesterday I managed to get some work done on the back! Pheeew, lots of work to be done here. It would probably go faster to name the things Fine Molds got right then what they did wrong! I now know what I will be giving the FM crew for Christmas.....GLASSES!
A lot of work was spent on the "box" that holds the suspension part. The stock kit doesn't even have this super important detail!? Just a sad little square for the suspension part to rest on.The Acreation Photo etch sheet had the box included but the size and angles were wrong.
I ended up using it anyway but put in a lot of work re-shaping it and adding the missing details. So far what you see on the back is a mixture of PE details, stretched sprue, 1mm brass tubes and sheet 0,4mm sheet styrene.
Sadly I just discovered that the "armor" parts that holds the engine exhausts/LED's are way to small and shaped wrong!
Since they are shaped to fit snuggly around the cockpit ball they're gonna be a real pain in the a%* to scratch build. Don't really know how I'll approach this yet.:unsure
Furious with anger with my over priced super inaccurate kit I continued with something easier instead. Adding the missing rivets to the hull hatch. They're hard to spot in the pic but they are all there, drilled with a 0,25mm bit.
That's it for now.
Cheers,
Steve.