Worked some on the sidewalls, I cut the pegs off the back and sanded them down flush, these pegs float the sidewalls off the frame by about 1/16 inch, so now I can just glue them straight to the metal frame flush and it ends making them deeper into the body which looks good, they were sitting a bit too flush with the edge of the ship...
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Also I cut back the little insets so they don't sit flush with the plating from the hull making a perfect box for the sidewalls to sit in. Now they have that recessed look that lets the hull plating hang over like on the studio model which looks REALLY cool, one of my favorite parts of the ship. I was bummed when I saw that DeAgo messed it up, but luckily its a super easy fix, as well as getting the sidewalls to sit back deeper into the ship by removing those back tabs, they have been removed in the bottom image below and are flush with the inner metal frame now, so that is about as far back as they are gonna get. I'd like them back a bit more, but it is much better than it was...
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Here is a compare of the studio model before all the overhang hull plating snapped off ; (
looks MUCH better IMO
glad that was easy!!
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going to sand down and re-panel and notch those inner plates that I trimmed down next.