Then I applied glue, attached the barrel tip, and let go… And it promptly dropped to the floor… Onto a grey/brown carpet… Cue myself and Grey on our hands and knees with a torch for the next 5 minutes searching for the piece… We found it in the end, thankfully, but it made me question why it dropped out so easily. The hole in the barrel it needs to be glued into is also small, but it was a nice fit when I dry-fitted the pieces first. If you’re not very careful how you position and glue it, and hold it carefully as the glue sets so it doesn’t slide or tip under even its own weight, it will end up off-centre and will end up bowing at the join, which could go on to ruin your model or at the very least, make it a little more awkward to continue building.īuilding it on the other hand became a slight chore, but this was mostly a problem of my own making… The tip of the barrel of each gun needs to have an extra piece glued into it, and the piece in itself is very small. And this wasn’t helped by 1 of these 3 sections only getting 1 pin to glue it to the outer panel. There isn’t much to give the delicate 3 piece glued section stability during this part of the build and with it glued together on only the shortest edges of each piece, it actually fell apart twice while trying to shimmy it into position on the pins. The solid outer panel gets 1 piece glued directly onto it, but the other 3 have to be put together separately according to the build guide and then attached to the outer panel via a set of small pins dotted around the outer edge on the inside of where the wheel arches are located. Each of the sides are quite wide with over a centimetre of space between the panels.

Sicaran battle tank: