Although not being a big fan of Cylon design from the new series, and having poor interest in any character's model kits, I wanted to build a Cylon Centurion to complete the collection, and not have only starships to exhibit on display stands.

Like the Raider NG, it will be build from the box.




Compared to the Raider, the box is much bigger and heavier. And it is so filled, it needs careful arrangment to close it back.




By cons, as the Raider, the parts are large and rather coarse. So once again in the 80's style (although it is not).




The scale is 1/6th, which gives it a respectable size of around 33cm built.




The eye comes as a clear part, and there seems to be enough room for a LED and a button battery in the noggin (which is just a separate part, seems to stay without gluing. I will use a flashinf bike LED reflector.




Overall, the Centurion is composed of a skeleton of a rather dark coler (looks like Steel) covered with opened armor plates in a lighter (seems aluminum). If some of these plates can be set after painting, a whole bunch requires bonding between them. And who says gluing, said sanding and puttying. 

So to facilitate painting, this building will follow two major steps:


    

  1. assembling and painting the skeleton,
    2. 

  2. assembling and painting of the armor plates other a masked skeleton.
    3.