A second chance

As it was with a stroke of luck, I got the Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper. This is the re-tooled version from Revell. I remember getting the original model so many years ago and I only went as fas as damaging the cockpit while trying to turn it transparent. Then news came that Revell is redoing the model kit but as soon as I wanted one, it was all sold out. Thanks to SFTPMS member cptan, I finally got one and I am very excited about it.

Apart from the viper, I also bought a Warrior MCV

Why, I also do not know. But I loved its tracks.

And the parts in the box of the Warrior MCV is

good enough for some kit-bashing. That is, if I

wanted to do it.

Anyway, let's have a look at the Viper kit

The first thing that strikes you is that the

decals for the model is more extensive if

you compared them to the old ones.

Next are the rear exhausts. In the original, it

was just three little bowls with lines. Here, it

has more details and more importantly, its

made for lighting. As for the front intake, it

is still the original but I just love that.

And ta-daa! Clear parts for the Viper!

A first in history! Ha ha ha ha!

Next, you have a pilot and a cockpit which

begs to be lit. Oh, do not worry about the

pilot's head as its just a neck where you

can position the head in any direction.

(Just as I told Bruce about this idea. to be

HonestI have not seen the Viper kit

before and this idea is just a coincidence.)

Although I have no pictures of the original

Viper cockpit, somehow, at the back of my

mind, there must be more detail to this.

(image taken from http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ee9cd88cd51a708e250ae8a95b99488c&topic=198.15)

Sp, Bruce, you coat it with silver, then black to make

sure the lights do not leak. Then the normal paints

and once done, just scrape off the part that needs

to be lit.