the side walls & incredible surface detail. The inserts that go into the top & underside of the hull are
very cleverly built up to give real depth & detail & make it easy to pre paint & detail. Cockpit is obviously
tiny but has plenty of surface detail that benefits from careful painting & a spot of dry brushing.
The canopy has come in for some criticism for the thick framing ( this is 1-144 scale after all ) some folks
have gone down the route of mechanically thinning these down but i just painted the edges black upto
the exterior face. Works well enough for me
. I started by using a Tamiya spray can AS-20 which isvery good but to my eye not quite tan enough (although the photography has bleached the colour a bit)
so i over coated using an old tin of Xtracolour FS 16495. The boarding ramp is a little sub assembly which
a good enough fit to not glue and can be interchanged with the ramp blanking piece. You only get one
set of decals for the ramp underside so i tried using the stickers and with a quick spray of Tamiya Matt
they do a suprisingly good job.
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