This is my first Relby K-23, Its finally finished! A big shout out to eethan for his amazing barrel kit! All the greeblies I used were cast by my wife Julie and I. The missile greeblie, the rear end cap, the motor coil greeblie, the Gillette gpa4 calculator button, and 2 side fin greeblies were all cast from original pieces from the Revell visible V8 and the Revell F-4E phantom ii model kits. The remaining (unidentified) parts were made by my wife and I. I'll continue looking for the original parts regardless. I did a rough paint job like the original. It still looks way to clean to me. I'll probably weather it some more but I'll definitely work on some other projects before come back to it. I did notice on the original that there's a pretty reasonable gap between the upper and lower reciever. The greeblie with the four raised dots on it clearly, IMO goes in-between the top and bottom receiver. It would have been too thin to cast so I cut a thin small piece of stainless steel and glued it to the top of the bottom receiver which held it in place and gave me the proper gap I was looking for. I then glued the greeblie right next to it so it would line up and appear to be a solid piece. The four raised dots I noticed are not all the same height. The first two are, the third is slightly higher and the fourth the highest. The cast I made is the same. I filled all or most of the seems with bondo and the holes with milliput to give it sort of a resin cast look. I filed the top flat to attach the rear sight greeblie, I believe thats that they did.The hex screw hole on the right side of the blaster just in front of the missile greeblie I noticed they just filled it with some kind of putty. You can actually see part of the hex shape on the blaster. I really tried to match the greeblies as close as I could based on the refrence images. Thank you everyone for all your help I'm very pleased to have this thing basically finished.
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