This is a well engineered snap together kit that surprisingly needed very little glue to seal seams and went together very quickly. It is also a 'motorized' kit with lights and sounds which are all controlled in this little module:
That clear pull tab will activate the batteries allowing this to work. I'll pull that when I am done with this.
Here it sits all nestled in place right in front of where the engines go:
There are openings in the back that will light up some clear blue parts in the engines.
Once the rear and engines were assembled and installed, the top hull was added to this lower hull. Easy peasy:
Here's a shot of the engines with the clear blue inserts that light up:
And yes, that gap is supposed to be there.
Next is the lower superstructure. You can see how they engineered this kit to go together without seams:
Next I added the upper superstructure to this assembly:
I then installed it on the main hull and slid the bridge neck into place:
Building the bridge itself required a bit of glue to close the seams adequately:
Finally, here she is in all her finished glory:
Finished assembly, that is. I still need to paint and detail this. To start that, I shot a coat of light grey primer over this whole thing:
With all the detail on this, it is screaming for some washes and dry-brushes of color!
That is all I have for now. That Star Destroyer was a real fun and relaxing model to build; it really helped bring me down from some of the more frustrating models I was working on *cough*VW BUS!*cough* which you can see in my Maddog Manufacturing Thread.
I don't know how much more I'll be able to do for the next few days, but stay tuned, I'll be working on some of this hopefully soon. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
