Well, the nacelle endcap blends need a little more puttywork, I think. No rush. I'd rather be happy with it before I clearcoat and move forward. In retrospect, I should have cast and attached the endcaps FIRST, then blended them in, then masked, primed and painted. Ah, well, live and learn.
As it stands, I'm very pleased with how the model is shaping up. Due to my own laziness and procrastination, the strip-down and rebuild has taken longer than I expected (nearly a year, now), but it's proven worthwhile to go slowly.
Is it perfect? No. If I was starting from scratch, with the raw UGH! kit, this would be a lot easier, and I would have done things differently. Having to modify some of the UGH! kit's inaccuracies has made the model a little rougher than it would otherwise be.
But, for what it is, I'm very pleased. I'm almost tempted to try 3D-modeling and printing/molding/casting the whole thing from scratch, but that seems a bit unnecessary, at this stage.
Still, I really wish that Round 2 would put out this design as a styrene kit in 1/1000 or even 1/350. That would be awesome. But it's likely never gonna happen. Maybe better garage kits will come down the pipe, someday. The UGH! kit is about 80% there. Just some shape and detail issues (the nacelles/pylons, upper and lower saucer bridge/domes, etc.) which prevent it from being a very accurate representation of the PHASE II design.