This is one of
those models that I struggled with to the very end. It is actually a kind
of a kitbash... originally I started with the Revell kit, but eventually I
changed my mind regarding the version I would make and ended up using
parts of the Italeri kit to build a Trop version. Why didn't I use
the Italeri kit instead? Well... the Revell kit has much better
surface details, so I decided to mix them both in order to get the
version I wanted.
But strange
things kept happening all along... from perfectly good decals dissolving
as if they were ancient to a fateful crash right in the end... this last
bit made me christen this baby "Espatifire" - from the
Portuguese verb espatifar, which means "to smash" or
"to be break into pieces".
I hope you
forgive my play upon words, but I had to laugh at the whole thing to avoid
giving up... which I was about to do when a friend of mine helped me to
reconsider.
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I finish the model the
night before our local IPMS contest and it received a gold medal... a happy
end, isn't it?
Vidal
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