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Kate Ward
This looks AMAZING.

Gary Victory
Wonderful work Steven. The build and weathering just top notch.

Steven Van Dyck
All welcome, the gun is now being built with the Aber barrel in it. There seem to be some dimension differences that can cause trouble for the fit of the gun cradle. One image of the floor shows some surprising choices of the Eduard set. It doesn't provide enough covers for all compartiments, and it doesn't reproduce the non-skid pattern correctly like Dragon did. It has only half of the coverage. I'd like to omit or replace these PE-parts for this reason. Maybe I'll use the diamond plate shown in some museum pieces, or look for a finer generic plate.

Steven Van Dyck
I found some strange errors in the manual connected to the gun elevating parts. Left and right parts seem to be switched on the drawing and one of the arms is not mirrored. First I filed the round pins square to fit both arms, but there's even a slot on the axle that necessitated the removal and turning around of parts B26 and B27. Only then I got a working cradle elevation according to reference photos. None of this was to be found in any review of the Dragon Pak 40, probably because these reviews are of unbuilt kits. The Voyager brass splintershields are like the AFV kit, only they are not pre-bent (as in my AFV kit one was wrongly bent).

Steven Van Dyck
At this event I participated to the contest with 4 models. 3 of them won bronze and USS Columbia in ABSD1 won Best of Show. At the lottery I also won a great AMK Fouga Magister and I collected some orders at Domino.

Alexander Grivonev
Congratulations mate! Was curious about that Fouga Magister, looks like some metal frame parts?

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks, Alexander, best check this review to see the contents. hyperscale.com/2017/..k88004reviewjm_1.htm
It has also an optional clearpart fuselage.

Lost_Erik
Thanks for posting all of these! Good show.

Congratulations on best in show and the bronze recognition! 👍

Steven Van Dyck
The pVoyager photo etch cabin roof is constructed with all its nightmarish embossing deformities corrected, the badly fitting airco module that was mosly bent the wrong way around so it broke at one instance. I replaced the 3 largest clearparts with a piece of Trumpeter 1/350 airplane set transparent box cover, that has the right thickness to be able to sand the corner roundings in it. The air purifier system is not installed completely, because that would impede the clearpart masking. So now it's down to interior painting.

gorby
Looks amazing so far!
I'm also amazed at the number of projects you have on the go and still manage to achieve such remarkable results.

S M
This is so ambitious project! Following!

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks, SM! The ruins are now painted using Vallejo primers and colors. I use vivid colors and then tone down to get depth. The earth colors will be "grassed".