I thought the next step would be to add dozens of small rectangles of plastic between the ribs of the Galactica to improve details. Finally, this is pending because :

  • First, I completely forgot to fill the voids on the head, left by the removal of the unsightly armor plates.

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  • And then I recreate these plates with thin plastic card :

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  • Second, the first engraving between the ribs do not finally satisfied me, so I could not resist and started a second pass of engraving much further :

before

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after

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As the space between each ribs is rather short, it was not possible to use a plastic cutter, and working with a pin is unfortunately needed. Why "unfortunately", well if it digs, it also creates ridges on each side of the recessed line, that have to be sanded, scraped, etc. to remove it. And because space is limited, it is difficult to be effective. Finally, I used once again the screwdriver to scrape them, and then I applied another glazing, still using Tamiya extra fluid glue to remove residues that are still remaining (this step allows them to blend in).

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This image shows the result of the vitrification : before (right, white traces are plastic remnants of the graving process) and after (left, where the white streaks are visible mainly reflections of light as the glue acts as a gloss)

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Only the body is done for the moment, I still have to continue this second pass of engraving on all other parts of the beast in the same spirit (head, reactors, warehouses, arms).