I would expect about that exact result with HPI skills and practices.

That said, Atlantis will need to manage the "time tunnel blowback" of people who buy these kits but do not have the experience, patience or parts stash to make them work.

Us lunatic fringers who love them regardless - we get it. Settle in for a long slog. There will be chips, bashing and blood. The pro-magnon-level Revells are not a Tamiya curbside you can knock out in a few days.

Perhaps better to look for ways to get in front of all the issues that attend this kit, rather than deal with the public excoriation that comes from sitting on the same shelf as modern CAD-Designed plastic.