I marked all the window locations and drill then with (0.75mm diameter) for the optical fibers.
![[Image: .IMG_7095_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_7095_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_7096_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_7096_m.jpg)
Parts preparation is laborious. Because there is finally a lot of tiny molding flaws, and bubbles hidden in the details.
Bubbles are filled with my shaggy hedgehog method ! So with the rods glued into each hole with cyano.
Sometimes I had to simply replace a detail too damaged with a tank part, or an Evergreen strip.
Long weeks were needed to reach the end of this step.
![[Image: .IMG_5640_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5640_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5656_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5656_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5668_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5668_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5680_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5680_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5674_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5674_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5742_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5742_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5693_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5693_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5695_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5695_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5671_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5671_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5672_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5672_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5673_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5673_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5687_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5687_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_6307_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_6307_m.jpg)
example before / after (an hour later!)
![[Image: .IMG_5738_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5738_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5739_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5739_m.jpg)
To take my mind off of this cleaning job, I get forward slowly on other works : internal bracing and support means ...
![[Image: .IMG_7095_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_7095_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_7096_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_7096_m.jpg)
Parts preparation is laborious. Because there is finally a lot of tiny molding flaws, and bubbles hidden in the details.
Bubbles are filled with my shaggy hedgehog method ! So with the rods glued into each hole with cyano.
Sometimes I had to simply replace a detail too damaged with a tank part, or an Evergreen strip.
Long weeks were needed to reach the end of this step.
![[Image: .IMG_5640_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5640_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5656_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5656_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5668_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5668_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5680_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5680_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5674_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5674_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5742_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5742_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5693_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5693_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5695_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5695_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5671_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5671_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5672_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5672_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5673_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5673_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5687_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5687_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_6307_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_6307_m.jpg)
example before / after (an hour later!)
![[Image: .IMG_5738_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5738_m.jpg)
![[Image: .IMG_5739_m.jpg]](http://olcabour.hangar.blog.free.fr/public/galactica/galactica_37/.IMG_5739_m.jpg)
To take my mind off of this cleaning job, I get forward slowly on other works : internal bracing and support means ...

