This is what happens when you get a plastic model a little too close to a lamp.
It melts and...
Deforms...
and more or less turns to junk.
Destroyed Gekko 20mm barrels
Tamiya North America was gracious enough to send out a new "F" tree to replace the turtle deck and there was extra barrels in the kit. Just one of the those annoying stupid things I did. ERrrrrrrrrr Arrggggg.
Luckly no other damage or deformities occurred so it didn't go to the big modeling bench in the sky.
New Gekko 20mm barrels
New Gekko 20mm barrels
Better then before I might add.
New replacement turtle deck
Much better then the other one.
20mm access hatch.
What a cool looking aeroplane.
Progress