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Jupiter 2 w/recast chariot with flashing fusion core

Here's some more photo's. 

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This is my Polar Lights Jupiter 2.  I was very unhappy with the fusion core that came with the kit so I exchanged it with a fusion core (solid resin) from Matrix Models.  A Garage Kit from the 80s.  I drilled straight down into the solid resin and fit (Lunar Models old lighting kit right down into it.

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Left is a Resin copy of the Chariot from Lost In Space made originally by Aurora/Polar Lights.  The copy is by TNT Productions.  The hardest thing about building this model, is that the corner windows were solid resin.  Fortunately they were thick enough to alow a mini power saw to cut through.  Which would you prefer?  The old kit or the new and improved one?