Fortunately CA mended the damage adequately, but the model, because of it's fragility combined with it's extraordinary mass requires extremely delicate handling. I also discovered that, although the resin has no serious air bubbles on the surface, the broken parts revealed that the resin is quite bubble-laden inside. I do not have high hopes that it will arrive unscathed. Cleanup begins One of the biggest jobs in building this model is cleaning up the tremendous amounts of flash present, especially on the metal parts. Plenty of patience, a Dremel tool and several types of needle files made life easier.
Files work well on the very hard resin too.
Be prepared to spend many hours cleaning up the parts ready for assembly, as this also familiarizes you with all the bits to prepare you for the steps which follow. After cleanup, the fine tooling of the model becomes more apparent. Assembly Following the instructions, which consist of four pages of basic text and very crude sketches, I assembled the two-piece spine first. I understand that newer kits have a one-piece spine, as it says so in the instructions. The body frames were next to be built.