vrijdag 5 december 2025

Sarissa Precision IM03 Marshport Refinery WIP - 90% done

 I spotted this kit in a battlereport a while back (I think) and I liked the look.

Kit currently retails for 34 euros but I picked it up in the Black Friday sale, so 10% off. 

Assembly was pretty easy, nice big flat parts. But I did notice a few things.

  • One of the short sides of the top part of the building comes with no laseretching at all. I have no idea if this is intentional as the shops paintjobs make that impossible to check.
  • You can't lift off the big roof as is without having to remove the other top section (unless you snip off a section that I will show later, then you have no issues)
  • The very spindly top part of the roof that is meant for the original lettering. That won't survive past the first game (so I took most of it off) 
  • The shute that ends up above the railtrack is just a open box with an opening
  • The top part glues down on top of the roof of the first floor, but that leaves space between the 2 openings. 

I do not need the rail system as I have my own, so I removed that part.

I've added 2 magnetised 30x30 bases to the top floor roof (ignore the loose bit beside it) and cut down the sign on the big roof down by half, and added scrap MDF inside and on the side to make it a lot stiffer
 
Added trim to the roof of the chute, with the forementioned blank side panel next to it. 

Added extra strengthening underneath the covering and added card on top to make rusted tinned sheet

I noticed some flexing on the inner wall so strengthend with more scrap MDF

I will not be using their vents so need to fill in the 4 lower holes, and already used some scrap and a swizzle stick part to make a plank to store some painted stuff once the kit is 90% done

And as always....

A new tinned roof.

 

I need to magnetise the sign and then cover it. It will get a Zona Alfa suitable marking, which can be covered with a magnetised sign of my choosing afterwards.  For the top part of the building I will make 2 swappable signs with magnets in the base. This is the way.

Edit:

As mentioned, I did not like the connection of the top part to the roof section so added scrap MDF to close the opening on the sides so there would be no gap.

After glueing everything the top part turned out to be 1-2 mm out of alignment with the ground floor. I glued a bit of scrap MDF behind the nub opening and now it sits perfectly
















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