Thanks.
What I least enjoyed were the resin parts.
The leg pods were crooked, the windows in the passenger pod were pretty bad, the cages were not accurate and not the same size at both ends. One kit was kissing parts. My two kits did not have the 16 connectors that connect the spine to the cages (like your kit had). I forgot about those, and have to ad them.
Some of the parts were cast in extremely soft white resin.
Some major flash on some of the parts (especially the passenger pod legs).
After I glued the two halves of the passenger pod together, I realized that the pod is not rectangular. I should have alinged the pieces with the bottom in place, to make it rectangular.
I did not even bother fixing the attitude thrusters. (which are not centered, and at the wrong angle)
I wanted to add aluminum thrusters to the whole kit, but it is not worth it.
It's a cool model, but they really should have paid more attention when making the kits.
Appearently the Lab Pod Eagle was made from a different master. Maybe that one is better.
See my website for some of the issues.
http://www.ketzer.com/eagle_transporter_23/index.html
Tim