Cleaning the resin part of the RetroSF damaged wing in resin is rather fast. I don’t think that this kit is still available, if it ever was. Indeed, it was a gift from Olivier Herman, who made the master for RetroSF (he also made the Tie and X-Wing cockpits, and the fantastic Snowspeeder).

It is well cast, you just need to be careful here and there, because there are some underlying bubbles. Not matter because there is nothing to work here, only paint.

The Fine Molds Tie pilot, which will therefore received the damaged wing, is modified to a position where he protects his head with his arms just before the impact with the wall of the trench (instinctive reflex that obviously did not save him !).

Before modifications

The arms are untied

As they were too slim after this operation, I completed them using remaining tree parts.

Here is the result assembled

After painting

The assembly begins with the cockpits. The FM is primed and painted. Then the 3 cockpits received black wash, and then a white drybrush to bring out the details. Some buttons (white, red, blue) are added randomly.

FM

And the 2 Revell

I finally decided to light the big Revell, with a LED at the end of the rod that will also serve as support. The two ions thrusters are drilled, and 1mm optical fiber is inserted up to the edge of the hole for the support. While I was there, I added some to the instruments lights in the cockpit.

Support is not done, so here is what it gives with a desk lamp.

The 3 central spheres are then assembled. There are no particular problems on the FineMolds. By cons, the Revell kits needed some filler, little elbow grease to smooth fitting gap (especially on the sphere).