G'day all;
WIP linked below. As usual, it's wordy, conversational and collaborative, and describes the build and finish. In summary; I built this with the KMC correction set plus its resin cockpit; all of the markings are painted using masks I made on a Silhouette cutter except for the few stencil decals. Here's the long version...
While the Academy kit is clearly flawed, and even after the installation of the KMC correction it remained so, it still ended up looking quite like a Mk.XIV, and I'm quite pleased with that.
The kit gave me no real problems to solve, it's one of the sad ironies that it is so well engineered and produced while being so fundamentally flawed. This build also became the catalyst for a mini unofficial Mk.XIV GB across two different scales and three different manufacturers. Stand by for a tsunami of Mk.XIV's to follow this one...
To the pics;
First, the reference...
Cheers.