Lunatech

Just got my kit today. The clear parts have 2 problems; a 'foggy' look on a few parts, this is easily cleared with a quick Tamiya 'finish' polishing job. The other, is some very fine mold lines which have the appearance of cracks but are (I have heard) lines where flows of plastic meet during the making process. These can be seen easily under certain conditions, but are hard to see when placed in front of 'busy' scenes. I don't think it's possible to remove these lines in any way. I am baffled by the inclusion of the brass barrels; these are nice but don't have any cooling louvres included. Odd inclusion seeing they're half-a-job! The kit is beautiful to behold though, esp of course the oil-canning effect.

Vince, great work so far. Can you tell me what you have used to create your cannon-ammunition and ammo-boxes -they look really impressive. Might the boxes be Eduard? Thx in advance.

Excellent work Fortress! I have not yet done a NM finish -but I'd love to be able to get close to your results. What ground-crew and truck have you used here?

Hello -although I've popped in here to LSP before now, I finally got round to joining up. It was your Flanker that made me get round to registering, jgrease -looks like the build will be worth following from what we see so far! I bought this kit just before Christmas, and intend to build it later in the year. When the kit arrived I was under the impression that there were some faults with it (indeed there are) but I happened across a post saying the kit had been updated -indeed it has! The nose now looks far better, as do the engine's rear-most parts (massive improvement) and on or 2 other bits I cannot recall. The canopy is still wrong, though. So jgrease, is yours the original or updated kit? I shall follow your build and hope to learn some tricks. Regards, Lunatech