As you can see the paint job is very well done, and quite accurate from the references I've looked at. There is a center section that comes out of the front, but after being glued in place is hardly noticable.

The toughest part of this model will be filling in the enormous hole at the back of the ship. Unlike the Federation ship, there is nothing there to plug it up. Should be fun to figure out a way of filling it in and making it look realistic.

Next you'll see the guide holes for the launching pad. These will definately need to be filled in. The only thing I regret is that I will have to ruin this nice paint job due to all the putty work and paint over a coat of a dark grey then redo all the paint marking again. But other then that it should be a good model to add to my collection.