Hello everyone .
So After 3 weeks of building the officer gallery it's almost done .
There's alit difference between the instructions and the actual build. while the instructions are showing old version of the ship with metal cast parts,the newer version of the ship all the parts are made from PE.
I took some ideas from other builds, and some improvisations.
For the leds upgrade, hole in the hull need to be opened so after i marked the location of the side of gallery i made the hole.
And closing it up and trimming the excess.
After some wet fitting i marked the windows locations and open holes again for the leds .
The windows parts that made from the PE came with thin clear fillment on the windows,with every tuch they torn from the windows ,so i cleard all the fillment from the windows painted them with white and filld the windows again with old TESTORS clear parts cement & windows maker
I got great results of semi clear windows.
And attaching all the parts together.
Occre's downgraded parts don't look very impressive and unfortunately I don't have the time for scratch build the entire gallery so, small upgrade of my own with ideas from other builds made the job done. Looking already beter.
Working on the rear part was somewhat tedious withe the lack of proper instructions and illustration with the new part, so i used the same solution that John Aliprantis used ,but i less satisfied with this solution and considering to make some adjustments with the part.
And for the conclusion of the gallery build for now
![IMG20230617211809.jpg IMG20230617211809.jpg](https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/364/364025-c0fff86cb0315fc42f50f421984f6847.jpg?hash=wP_4bLAxX8)
Later on i will paint the rest of the gallery and make the corrections if i will decide to make so.
But for now i will continue with other stuff to rest from this phase of the build.
Cheers and have great week
Guy