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I built one this past Christmas (2004) in N-Scale. The parts are very clean and straight. It went together easily. My only assembly suggestions would be the same I would suggest with any structure kit (especially plastic): 1. Assemble the walls FIRST, clean and fill any imperfections in the joints, and then spray paint it all the final color. This makes the whole thing look much more professional. Otherwise, you'll see the corner seams and that spoils the realism. 2. Spray the window castings, scrape the paint off the glue points, and put them in. 3. Paint the whole inside black or a dark color. I use Tamiya Gun Metal, which I like better than black because it's a bizarre gray/black mottled color that darkens the interior without making it look like a "black hole." 4. Put a black or dark gray "view block" of styrene or mat board inside, so you can't see right through the whole thing. I like to put it diagonally across the inside, so you can't see through from any side. 5. Give the whole thing an overspray of DullCote before you put in the window glass. You can even DullCote it AFTER you put in the glass if you prefer. This will frost the glass, but that's sometimes a good idea, especially if you aren't detailing the interior (but painting everything black inside and using the viewblock works well that for that). It comes molded in reasonable colors, but it will look a lot better if you paint it. I used Tamiya spray paints. The Testors military colors also work well. Even if you don't have an airbrush, you can get good results with these because they are atomized pretty finely. I chose a white-gray concrete looking color, and left the windows a dark gray color.
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